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John A.: Birth of a Country is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Jerry Ciccoritti with Shawn Doyle

John A.: Birth of a Country (2011)

John A. : Birth of a Country

John A.: Birth of a Country
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Length 1h31
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OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating73% 3.681623.681623.681623.681623.68162

John A.: Birth of a Country is a Canadian television film, which aired on CBC Television in 2011.

Dramatizing the events that led up to Canadian Confederation in 1867 based on Richard Gwyn's non-fiction book John A.: The Man Who Made Us, the film stars Shawn Doyle as Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. The film's cast also includes Peter Outerbridge as George Brown, David La Haye as George-Étienne Cartier, Aidan Devine as John Sandfield Macdonald and Patrick McKenna as Alexander Galt, as well as Michelle Nolden, Peter MacNeill, Cedric Smith and Rob Stewart.

The film won two Canadian Screen Award acting categories at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, for Lead Actor in Television Film or Miniseries (Doyle) and Supporting Actor in a Drama Program or Series (Outerbridge). It also won the top direction (Jerry Ciccoritti) and writing (Bruce M. Smith) awards.

Synopsis

Ce drame raconte la haine viscérale entre deux hommes, leur passion pour le service public et leur rivalité, qui ont façonné le Canada. Entre 1856 et 1864, deux hommes de convictions s'affrontent pour décider de l'avenir du Canada. Ce drame de deux heures met en lumière la lutte acharnée opposant John A. Macdonald, le charismatique chef du Parti conservateur, et George Brown, fondateur du journal torontois Globe et chef de l'organisation politique qui deviendra le Parti libéral, connu pour sa détermination à toute épreuve. Ils poursuivent avec passion des visions radicalement opposées et nourrissent l'un pour l'autre une haine profonde. Lorsque Macdonald prend le contrôle du Parti conservateur et en fait la force dominante de l'assemblée, il élabore un plan d'action tellement brillant et audacieux qu'il mène à la création de la Confédération, et donc du Canada tel que nous le connaissons.

Actors

Shawn Doyle

(John A. Macdonald)Peter Outerbridge

(George Brown)David La Haye

(George Etienne-Cartier)Aidan Devine

(John Sandfield Macdonald)Patrick McKenna

(Alexander Galt)
And :
Michelle Nolden
Peter MacNeill
Cedric Smith
Rob Stewart
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