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Director
  
Michel Brault

Duration
  

Country
  
Canada

6.4/10
IMDb

Written by
  
Michel Brault

Genres
  
Drama, War film

Writer
  
Michel Brault

Language
  
French

The Long Winter (1999 film) movie poster

Cast
  
Francis Reddy
(François-Xavier Bouchard),
David Boutin
(Chevalier de Lorimier),
Micheline Lanctôt
(Rose-Aimee Bouchard),
Claude Gauthier
,
Rosalier Dumontier
,
Emmanuel Bilodeau

Release date
  
March 13, 1999

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The Long Winter (French title: Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore) is a 1999 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Michel Brault, it is a partly fictionalized account of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.

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The Long Winter (1999 film) movie scenes

Description

It features the fictional character of François-Xavier Bouchard and the factual character of François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier. The music was composed by François Dompierre. Film director Pierre Falardeau says that Telefilm Canada initially used the approval of Brault's movie as an excuse to deny funds for the movie February 15, 1839. This incited him to write a second Elvis Gratton movie instead.

The main protagonist is Patriote François-Xavier Bouchard. The latter comes back to Lower Canada in the autumn of 1838 after having escaped to the United States (as a number of Patriotes did indeed), after the first uprising, in that year. As soon as he returns, despite the exhortations of his family, he joins François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier for another attempt. Following a hasty trial, Bouchard, Chevalier de Lorimier and others are sentenced to death.

Cast

  • Francis Reddy as François-Xavier Bouchard
  • David Boutin as François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier
  • Micheline Lanctôt
  • Claude Gauthier
  • Emmanuel Bilodeau
  • Pierre Lebeau
  • Rosalier Dumontier
  • Sylvain Landry
  • Philippe Lambert
  • Stéphane Simard
  • Robert Bouvier
  • Roc LaFortune
  • Julian Casey
  • James Bradford

    • Trivia

  • Comedian Bruno Blanchet shot scenes for the film, but they were cut.

    • References

    The Long Winter (1999 film) Wikipedia
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    The Long Winter (1999 film) IMDb The Long Winter (1999 film) themoviedb.org