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Orders is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Michel Brault released in USA on 5 may 1977 with Jean Lapointe
Orders (1974)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 may 1977
Length 1h49
Directed by Michel Brault
OriginCanada
Themes Political films
Rating80%
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. It was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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En octobre 1970, à la suite des revendications et actes terroristes du Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), le gouvernement canadien adopte la Loi des mesures de guerre pour rétablir la loi et l'ordre. Cette mesure mènera à l'arrestation arbitraire d'environ 500 personnes, contre lesquelles aucune accusation ne sera portée. Le film suit cinq personnages fictifs durant cet épisode de l'histoire québécoise.Actors
Jean Lapointe
(Clermont Boudreau)
Guy Provost
(Dr. Jean-Marie Beauchemin)
Hélène Loiselle
(Marie Boudreau)
Louise Forestier
(Claudette Dusseault)
Claude Gauthier
(Richard Lavoie)
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