Bound for Glory (French: Partis pour la gloire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Clément Perron and released in 1975.[1]
| Bound for Glory | |
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| French | Partis pour la gloire |
| Directed by | Clément Perron |
| Written by | Clément Perron |
| Produced by | Marc Beaudet |
| Starring | Serge L'Italien Rachel Cailhier Jacques Thisdale André Melançon |
| Cinematography | Georges Dufaux |
| Edited by | Pierre Lemelin |
| Music by | François Dompierre |
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Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Set against the backdrop of the 1942 Canadian conscription plebiscite,[2] the film is set in a small town in the Beauce region of Quebec where resistance to the war is high and many men have fled into the woods to escape being conscripted.[3] The film's cast includes Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon, Yolande Roy, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Louise Ladouceur and Jean-Pierre Masson.
Melançon won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor at the 27th Canadian Film Awards.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Première du film «Partis pour la gloire»". Bilan du siècle (Université de Sherbrooke).
- ^ Lever, Y. (2012). "Le cinéma québécois et la Seconde Guerre mondiale". Bulletin d'histoire politique, 20(3), 24–35. https://doi.org/10.7202/1056196ar.
- ^ "Clément Perron's Partis pour la gloire". Cinema Canada, February 1976. pp. 45-46.
- ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 111-114.
External links
edit- Watch Bound for Glory on the NFB website
- Bound for Glory at IMDb
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