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The Merry World of Léopold Z
19651 h 8 min 33 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Gilles Carle
Production: Jacques Bobet
Script: Gilles Carle
Christmas Eve in Montréal and, in the midst of the worst blizzard of the year, a man performs that mundane miracle of pleasing everyone, even himself. In this feature film Léopold emerges as the happy-go-lucky type who procrastinates, but for whom everything falls neatly into place. In the midst of a storm, with a snowplow to operate, a boss to please, a New York cousin to meet at the station, and a fur coat to buy for his wife, Léopold does the impossible by doing it all. In the end he even manages to get to midnight Mass, with a conscience almost as clear as the streets he has plowed.
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Subject categories
- Families > Family LifeFamily-Work Reconciliation
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and Challenges
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Geography > Territory: Urban
Credits
- director
- Gilles Carle
- script
- Gilles Carle
- executive producer
- Jacques Bobet
- photography
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- Werner Nold
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- narrator
- Albert Millaire
- music
- Paul de Margerie
- cast
- André Gagnon
- Paul Hébert
- Monique Joly
- Guy L'Écuyer
- Gilles Latulippe
- Jacques Poulin
- Suzanne Valéry
- Bernard Lapierre
Awards
- First Prize - Category: Feature FilmsFestival of Canadian Films - Montreal International Film Festival
- Diploma of HonourInternational Film Festival