The Death of a Lumberjack

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.

Cast

Carole Laure

as Marie Chapdeleine

Willie Lamothe

as Armand St. Amour

Daniel Pilon

as François Paradis

Pauline Julien

as Charlotte Juillet

Marcel Sabourin

as Ti-Noir L'Esperance

Denise Filiatrault

as Blanche Bellefeuille

Jacques Gagnon

Roger Le Bel

as Paper employee union archivist

Ernest Guimond

as Wilfred

Jacques Bouchard

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