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The Death of a Lumberjack

4.7 115 mins Drama   1973
Cinévision  
Director(s): Gilles Carle

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.

Casts of The Death of a Lumberjack

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

Roger Le Bel

as Paper employee union archivist

Ernest Guimond

as Wilfred

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