Back to the Land (1976)
Overview
Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).
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| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 0.55 |
Directed By
Pierre Perrault
Crew
Gilles Quintal
Louise Carré
Bernard Gosselin
Serge Giguère
Claire Boyer
Claude Beaugrand
Hugues Mignault
Roseline Breton
Paul Larose
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Monique Létourneau
Pierre Perrault
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