The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
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.
- Released
- 1973-01-25
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gilles Carle
- TMDB rating
- 4.9/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Carole Laure as Marie Chapdeleine
- Willie Lamothe as Armand St. Amour
- Daniel Pilon as François Paradis
- Pauline Julien as Charlotte Juillet
- Marcel Sabourin as Ti-Noir L'Esperance
- Denise Filiatrault as Blanche Bellefeuille
- Jacques Gagnon
- Roger Le Bel as Paper employee union archivist
- Ernest Guimond as Wilfred
- Jacques Bouchard
- Yvonne Diabo
- J. Léo Gagnon