Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

53 mins | Documentary | Feb. 21, 2015

This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?

Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

53 mins | Documentary | Feb. 21, 2015

Remembering Maria Chapdelaine
This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Sur les traces de Maria Chapdelaine
Directors Jean-Claude Labrecque
Writers

Cast

Julien Duvivier

as Self (archive footage)