October 1970 (film)
| October 1970 | |
|---|---|
| Written by |
Wayne Grigsby Peter Mitchell |
| Directed by | Don McBrearty |
| Starring |
Patrick Labbé; Karine Vanasse, Fanny La Croix, Denis Bernard Mark Day Hugo Saint-Cyr Gary Levert |
| Theme music composer | Jonathan Goldsmith |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Laszlo Barna Wayne Grigsby David MacLeod |
| Running time | 480 minutes |
| Distributor | CBC Television |
| Release | |
| Original release |
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October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist and marxist group,] the Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered.
It was severely criticised by articles of and letters to Le Devoir :
Cast: (in credits order)
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