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Prologue (1970)

Prologue poster
Directed by
Robin Spry
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young activist in Montreal gets drawn into the turbulent world of anti-war protest. The film mixes fictional scenes with real footage from the 1968 Chicago protests.

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What happens

Prologue is a 1969 National Film Board of Canada feature from Robin Spry, shot and set in Montreal and Chicago, blending drama with documentary sequences from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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