Traître Ou Patriote

Release Information
September 15, 2000
Montréal (Ex-Centris)
Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
Budget
Distributors

Production Details

Executive Producer
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Producer
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Adam Symansky
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Line Producer
Éric Michel
Éric Michel
Director
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Director of Photography
François Vincelette
François Vincelette
François Vincelette
François Vincelette
Writer
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Editor
Jacques Godbout
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jean-Marie Drot
Jacques Godbout
Cast
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout
83 minutes, 1999

How can the premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944 be erased from a society’s collective memory and even that of historians? Yet this was indeed the fate of Adélard Godbout, great-uncle of Jacques Godbout. Through the historic destiny of his childhood hero, Jacques Godbout asks uneasy questions about collective memory and Quebec nationalism that we cannot dodge. The case of Adélard Godbout is especially troubling. He was the precursor of the Quiet Revolution and instituted free and compulsory education. He gave women the right to vote and gave Quebec Hydro-Québec and labour laws. As a committed Christian and humanist, however, he supported war against Nazi barbarism. The ultranationalists first defeated him, and then erased him from our collective memory. As always, Jacques Godbout forces us in this film to take a fresh new look at conventional wisdom.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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