She killed her husband. The British killed her. Quebec never forgot.
A teleplay about Marie-Josephte Corriveau, a French-Canadian woman executed by the British in 1763 for the murder of her second husband, Louis Dodier.
Acting
Anne Dorval before she became Quebec's queen of everything.
Production
Teleplay constraints make the courtroom feel claustrophobically real.
Director
Jean Salvy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
La Corriveau's skeleton—complete with iron cage—was displayed in a Montreal museum until 1851. No, really.
The 1995 timing matters: released during the 1995 Quebec referendum, this colonial-era injustice hit differently.
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