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Les Ordres Directed by Michel Brault Produced by Gui Caron
Bernard LalondeWritten by Michel Brault Starring Jean Lapointe
Hélène Loiselle
Guy Provost
Claude Gauthier
Louise ForestierCinematography Michel Brault
François ProtatEditing by Yves Dion Release date(s) September 27, 1974 Running time 109 minutes Country 
CanadaLanguage French Orders (original title: Les Ordres, known in the United States as: Orderers) is a 1974 Quebec historical drama film about the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 October Crisis and the War Measures Act enacted by the Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau. It is the second film by director Michel Brault. It features entertainer and Senator Jean Lapointe.
The film tells the story of five of those incarcerated civilians. It is scripted but is inspired by a number of interviews with actual prisoners made during the events and its style is heavily inspired by the Quebec school of Cinéma vérité. It is a docufiction. It won a Cannes Film Festival Award in 1975 and four Canadian Film Awards (predecessor of the Genie Awards) the same year.
Contents
Cast
- Jean Lapointe - Clermont Boudreau
- Hélène Loiselle - Marie Boudreau
- Guy Provost - Dr. Jean-Marie Beauchemin
- Claude Gauthier - Richard Lavoie
- Louise Forestier - Claudette Dusseault
Awards
- 1975 Cannes Film Festival, won for Best Director[1] (Michel Brault, tied with Costa Gavras for Section spéciale)
- 1975 Cannes Film Festival, nominated for Golden Palm (Michel Brault)
- 1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Feature Film (Claude Godbout, Guy Dufaux and Bernard Lalonde)
- 1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Film of the Year (Guy Dufaux, Claude Godbout and Bernard Lalonde)
- 1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Original Script (Michel Brault)
- 1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Direction (Michel Brault)
- Thrice ranked as one of the seven best Canadian films in all three of the TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time surveys (in 1984, 1993 and 2004) of the Toronto International Film Festival
See also
- List of Quebec films
- Cinema of Quebec
- Culture of Quebec
- Quebec independence movement
- History of Quebec
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Les Ordres". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2168/year/1975.html. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
External links
- Canada’s Ten Best film surveys
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Les Ordres at the Internet Movie Database
- Les Ordres at AllRovi
Canadian Film Award/Genie Award winners for Best Motion Picture Canadian Film Award À tout prendre (1964) • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965) • Le Festin des Morts (1966) • Warrendale (1967) • The Ernie Game (1968) • The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969) • Goin' Down the Road (1970) • Mon oncle Antoine (1971) • Wedding in White (1972) • Slipstream (1973) • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) • Les Ordres (1975) • Lies My Father Told Me (1976) • J.A. Martin Photographer (1977) • The Silent Partner (1978)
Genie Award The Changeling (1980) • Les Bons débarras (1981) • Ticket to Heaven (1982) • The Grey Fox (1983) • The Terry Fox Story (1984) • The Bay Boy (1985) • My American Cousin (1986) • Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987) • Un Zoo la nuit (1988) • Dead Ringers (1989) • Jésus de Montréal (1990) • Black Robe (1991) • Naked Lunch (1992) • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) • Exotica (1994) • The Confessional (1995) • Lilies (1996) • The Sweet Hereafter (1997) • The Red Violin (1998) • Sunshine (1999) • Maelström (2000) • Atanarjuat (2001) • Ararat (2002) • Les Invasions barbares (2003) • Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004) • C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) • Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) • Away from Her (2007) • Passchendaele (2008) • Polytechnique (2009) • Incendies (2010)
Categories:- Canadian films
- French-language films
- 1974 films
- Quebec films
- Canadian drama films
- Films based on actual events
- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by Michel Brault
- October Crisis
- Political drama films
- Films set in Montreal
- Genie Award for Best Picture winners
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