With Drums and Trumpets

With Drums and Trumpets (French: Avec tambours et trompettes) is a 1967 Canadian documentary film, directed by Marcel Carrière for the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

With Drums and Trumpets
FrenchAvec tambours et trompettes
Directed byMarcel Carrière
Produced byRobert Forget
CinematographyAlain Dostie
Bernard Gosselin
Edited byWerner Nold
Music byDonald Douglas
Production
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Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
Running time
27:33 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench with English subtitles

The film depicts a group of men in Coaticook, Quebec who are performing the roles of the Papal Zouaves in a historical reenactment of the Capture of Rome during the Italian Risorgimento.[2]

In 1867, Pope Pius IX called for volunteers to defend the Papacy against the troops of King Victor-Emmanuel, and Québec sent a contingent of 503 men to join the Papal Zouaves. Filmed at a centenary celebration of this event, the film is a humorous but sympathetic portrait of this elite group.[3]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Marcel Carrière" in Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 9780802083982.
  2. ^ "Première du documentaire «Avec tambours et trompettes»". Bilan du siècle (Université de Sherbrooke).
  3. ^ "With Drums and Trumpets". mcintyre.ca. McIntyre Media. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  4. ^ "A Place To Stand: Film of Year". The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1968.
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