The Long Winter (1999)

Original title

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore

Directed by

Michel Brault

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 06m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows a family in Quebec during the 1837 rebellion against British rule. It shows how the uprising affects their lives and their struggle for independence.

historicalsomberearnestslow-pacedintrospectivegroundedseriousmelancholic

What happens

The Long Winter (French: Quand je serai parti… vous vivrez encore, lit. 'When I'm gone… you'll still live') is a 1999 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Michel Brault, it is a partly fictionalized account of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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