Nelligan
- Release Information
- September 27, 1991
- Montréal
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- Budget
- Budget: $2,750,000
- Distributors
- Qc Aska Film Distribution Inc.
Production Details
- Executive Producer
- Gérald Ross
- Robert Sésé
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Producer
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Line Producer
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Doris Girard
- Marie-Andrée Vinet
- Director
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Luc Picard
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Director of Photography
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Guy Dufaux
- Music
- Michel Comeau
- Michel Comeau
- Gabriel Arcand
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Bernard
- Writer
- Luc Picard
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Hélène Girard
- Jean-Joseph Trembley
- Aude Nantais
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Claude Poissant
- Editor
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Hélène Girard
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Robert Favreau
- Guy Dufaux
- Cast
- Marc St-Pierre
- Michel Comeau
- Michel Comeau
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Lorraine Pintal
- Luc Morissette
- Luc Morissette
- Luc Morissette
- Luc Morissette
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- Gabriel Arcand
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- David La Haye
- Dominique Leduc
- Dominique Leduc
- Dominique Leduc
- Dominique Leduc
- Dominique Leduc
- Dominique Leduc
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Luc Picard
- Marie Bernard
Loved by a possessive mother who places all her hope in him, a foreigner to an Irish father whom he considers an enemy, and at odds with a literary community favouring a comme il faut style of poetry, Émile Nelligan, adolescent genius, rejects the norms imposed on him and sets off on an unequivocally avant-garde poetic quest. Shunned by all, he starts drinking and associates with society's fringe. His behaviour and his works create a scandal, and he is committed to a mental institution. To save his reputation and his memory, some of his poems are collected in an anthology, but almost all of his manuscripts disappear. His mentor Louis Dantin seals the poet's fate in his first words in the preface: "Émile Nelligan is dead..." Also dead and gone is his surprising modern poetry, the poetry of a precursor poet who lived in a mental institution until his death but who never abandoned his poetic quest.
Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)