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Fantastica is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure

Fantastica (1980)

Fantastica
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Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating52% 2.6490052.6490052.6490052.6490052.649005

Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. An English-language dialogue dubbed version of the film was broadcast on Superchannel, a pay-TV channel in western Canada in the early 1980s.

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Une troupe de comédie musicale se déplace à travers la province de Québec. Lorca (Carole Laure) en est la vedette principale et son amant (Lewis Furey), le compositeur et directeur de la troupe. La rencontre d'un vieil ermite écologiste (Serge Reggiani) permet à Lorca de concilier ses aspirations d'artiste et de femme dans un monde où la nature a ses droits.

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