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19731 h 53 min 20 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Gilles Groulx
Production: Paul Larose
Script: Gilles GroulxJean-Marc Piotte
A cinematic tract, a personal, activist work by a socially committed Québec filmmaker, this is a frontal assault, fraught with exacerbated emotion and concentrated philosophy, on a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil. This film was made during an exceptional, feverish period of popular revolt, against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis.
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Subject categories
- Social Issues > Consumer CultureQuebec Society
- Economics > ConsumerismSocio-Economic Conditions
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Québec
- Politics and Government - Canada > Québec Nationalism
- Work and Labour Relations > StrikesUnionization and the Labour Movement
- Civics/Citizenship > Citizen Responsibilities
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
Credits
- director
- Gilles Groulx
- collaboration
- Jean-Marc Piotte
- script
- Gilles Groulx
- Jean-Marc Piotte
- producer
- Paul Larose
Awards
- Cash prize of 3,000$ given by "Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma"Prix de la Critique 1977