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Directed by
  
Don McBrearty

Original language(s)
  
English

Director
  
Don McBrearty

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Theme music composer
  
Jonathan Goldsmith

Initial release
  
12 October 2006

Budget
  
4 million CAD

Written by
  
Wayne Grigsby Peter Mitchell

Starring
  
Patrick Labbé; Karine Vanasse, Fanny La Croix, Denis Bernard Mark Day Hugo Saint-Cyr Gary Levert

Producer(s)
  
Laszlo Barna Wayne Grigsby David MacLeod

Cast
  
Karine Vanasse, Patrick Labbé, Denis Bernard, Fanny La Croix, Mark Day

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October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist and marxist group,] the Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered.

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It was severely criticised by articles of and letters to Le Devoir :

  • How to become a hero « If he is still alive, [Giguère] must be dying of laughter »
  • To be seen sep 12 on TV, the series in French « ... clearly distorted for dramatisation purposes »
  • Radio-Canada [the French-language counterpart of CBC] was doubtful of the series' quality
  • Letters about the series October 1970 (by Jacques Lanctôt himself)
  • CBC's series about FLQ : War, yes my colonel « ... giving back life, against all historical obviousness, to the ludicrous idea of a plot aiming to institute a temporary government in October 70. »

    • Cast: (in credits order)

  • Patrick Labbé : Julien Giguère
  • Karine Vanasse : Christine (fictional character designed by confusing Carole Devault with Louise Verreault)
  • Denis Bernard : Pierre Laporte
  • Hugh Thompson : McLeery
  • Mathieu Grondin : Jacques Lanctôt
  • Fanny La Croix : Louise Lanctôt
  • Mark Day : Mark Lepage
  • Gary Levert : Michel St-Louis (reporter)
  • Eric Paulhus : Bernard Lortie
  • Hugo Saint-Cyr : Paul Rose
  • R.H. Thomson : James Cross
  • Paul Doucet : Jean-Marc
  • Derek Moran : Branko
  • Paulino Nunes : Sgt Albert Lisacek

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    References

    October 1970 (film) Wikipedia
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