Scandale (1982)

Directed by

George Mihalka

Genre

pornographic film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

18A

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Government workers at a Quebec ministry make a pornographic film in the legislature to earn money after pay cuts. The film accidentally gets entered into the Cannes Film Festival, embarrassing officials.

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What happens

Scandale is a 1982 Canadian (Québec) comedy film. The plot is a reference to current events at the time of the film's creation. The response of a Parti Québécois government under René Lévesque to the recession of the early 1980s included harsh cutbacks to civil service pay which angered labour union members, a core part of the constituency of the PQ and sovereignty movement. In real life, the move would cost the party the next election. In the film, a band of government workers affected by budget cutbacks at the Ministry of Culture decide to make some fast bucks by making a blue movie in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Their finished product is unexpectedly entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in order to showcase Québec's culture, shocking government officials. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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