Octobre (1994)

Directed by

Pierre Falardeau

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the story of the October Crisis from the perspective of the FLQ cell that kidnapped and killed Quebec minister Pierre Laporte. It is based on accounts from one of the cell members and shows events as they unfolded.

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What happens

Octobre is a 1994 Quebec film directed by filmmaker and noted independentist Pierre Falardeau. It tells a version of the October Crisis from the point of view of the Chénier Cell, the FLQ terrorist cell who in 1970 kidnapped and murdered Quebec minister and Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte, as reported to director Pierre Falardeau by Chénier Cell member Francis Simard during interviews in jail over a period of 5 years. The film is based on the 1982 book Pour en finir avec Octobre by Francis Simard, who was one of the members of the Chénier Cell. The film was co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Dubé and Pierre Rivard won the 1994 Prix Guy-L'Écuyer for Octobre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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