The Death of a Lumberjack

Jan 25, 1973

1h 55m

★ 4.7

Overview

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cinévision

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Cast

Marie Chapdeleine

Carole Laure

Armand St. Amour

Willie Lamothe

François Paradis

Daniel Pilon

Charlotte Juillet

Pauline Julien

Ti-Noir L'Esperance

Marcel Sabourin

Blanche Bellefeuille

Denise Filiatrault

Jacques Gagnon

Paper employee union archivist

Roger Le Bel

Wilfred

Ernest Guimond

Jacques Bouchard

Yvonne Diabo

J. Léo Gagnon

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