A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Direction
Brault's vérité style makes fiction feel like found footage.
Acting
Non-professional faces who lived through it.
Director
Michel Brault
Hélène Loiselle
Marie Boudreau
Jean Lapointe
Clermont Boudreau
Guy Provost
Dr. Jean-Marie Beauchemin
Claude Gauthier
Richard Lavoie
Louise Forestier
Claudette Dusseault
Michel Forget
Policeman
Amulette Garneau
Mrs. Thibault, The Neighbour
Louise Latraverse
Claire Beauchemin
Sophie Clément
Ginette Lavoie
J. Léo Gagnon
The Grocer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brault was actually arrested during the real October Crisis; he filmed inside the same prison where he'd been held.
The film was censored in English Canada for years—too uncomfortable for the 'free country' narrative.
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