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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.

Release: 1973-01-25
Runtime: 115 min
Rating: 4.2 / 10

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Cast
Carole Laure
Carole Laure
Marie Chapdeleine
Willie Lamothe
Willie Lamothe
Armand St. Amour
Daniel Pilon
Daniel Pilon
François Paradis
Pauline Julien
Pauline Julien
Charlotte Juillet
Marcel Sabourin
Marcel Sabourin
Ti-Noir L'Esperance
Denise Filiatrault
Denise Filiatrault
Blanche Bellefeuille
Jacques Gagnon
Jacques Gagnon
Roger Le Bel
Roger Le Bel
Paper employee union archivist
Ernest Guimond
Ernest Guimond
Wilfred
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Jacques Bouchard
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Yvonne Diabo
J. Léo Gagnon
J. Léo Gagnon
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Bobby Hachey
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Eugene Lahache
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Gil LaRoche
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Marcel Fournier