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Los Canadienses
197657 min 31 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Albert Kish
Production: Colin LowTom Daly
Script: Albert KishLaszlo Géfin
Between 1936 and 1939, over forty thousand volunteers from around the world fought to save Spain's constitutionally elected government. Los Canadienses is about the 1 200 Canadians in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion who joined that struggle. More than half of them never returned. Emotional, the film never lapses into sentimentality. Respectful, it is committed to the memory of those who truly believed in the cause of the Republic.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Canadian Military Forces
- Foreign Countries > Conflicts and Civil WarHistorical PerspectivesSpain and Portugal
- War, Conflict and Peace > Europe
Credits
- director
- Albert Kish
- editing
- Albert Kish
- producer
- Colin Low
- Tom Daly
- commentary
- Albert Kish
- Laszlo Géfin
- photography
- Barry Perles
- sound
- André Hourlier
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- narrator
- Donald Brittain
- music
- Ben Low
- music recording
- Roger Lamoureux
Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category 34: International History and CultureItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Silver HugoInternational Film Festival
- Robert Flaherty AwardBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards
- TV Award for Best Film Made Specifically for TVInternational Film Festival
- Special Mention given by the Fédération internationale de la presse cinématographique FIPRESCIInternational Film Festival
- Special Prize for the Best FilmInternational Film Festival
- Etrog for Best DocumentaryYorkton Film Festival