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Passchendaele
20071 h 54 min 9 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Paul Gross
Production: Niv FichmanFrank SiracusaFrancis DambergerPaul Gross
Script: Paul GrossJohn McAndrew
Co-produced by Rhombus Media and Whizbang Films in association with the Damberger Film and Cattle Company.
This title is an acquisition.
Set during the height of the First World War, Passchendaele tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross), a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred. While in the military hospital in Calgary, he meets Sarah (Caroline Dhavernas), a mysterious and attractive nurse with whom he develops a passionate love. When Sarah's younger asthmatic brother David (Joe Dinicol) signs up to fight in Europe, Michael feels compelled to return to Europe to protect him. Michael and David, like thousands of Canadians, are sent to fight in the third battle of Ypres, a battle against impossible odds, commonly known as "Passchendaele". It is a story of passion, courage and dedication, showing the heroism of those that fought in battle, and of the ones that loved them.
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Subject categories
- Foreign Countries > Belgium and the Netherlands
- National Security and Defence > Canadian Armed Forces
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > World War I
- War, Conflict and Peace > World War I
Credits
- writer
- Paul Gross
- director
- Paul Gross
- producer
- Niv Fichman
- Frank Siracusa
- Francis Damberger
- Paul Gross
- director of photography
- Gregory Middleton
- production designer
- Carol Spier
- editor
- David Wharnsby
- music
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
- costume designer
- Wendy Partridge
- casting
- Deirdre Bowen
- Rhonda Fisekci
- line production
- Thom Pretak
- associate director
- Francis Damberger
- associate producer
- Sheila O'Gorman
- Austin Wong
- Barbara Willis-Sweete
- Larry Weinstein
- Janina Barrett
- Penny McDonald
- production manager
- Linda Rogers-Ambury
- Chris Bell
- 1st assistant director
- Philip Chipera
- Richard Friedman
- 2nd assistant director
- Cory Faulkner
- Michele Williams
- script consultant
- Anne Mackenzie
- military consultant
- Norman Leach
- visual effects producer
- Julie Lawrence
- Christopher Elke
- visual effects supervisor
- Ralph S. Maiers
- cast
- Paul Gross
- Michael Greyeyes
- James Kot
- Jesse Frechette
- Rainer Kahl
- Landon Liboiron
- Caroline Dhavernas
- Patricia Benedict
- Hugh Probyn
- Jim Mezon
- Brian Dooley
- Joe Dinicol
- Meredith Bailey
- Robert Nogier
- Francis Damberger
- David Ley
- Judith Buchan
- Dave Brown
- Chad Nobert
- Lois Holley
- Stafford Lawrence
- Gil Bellows
- Marty Antonini
- James DeFelice
- Sean Anthony Olsen
- Ryan Cowie
- Alexander Arsenault
- Justin Michael Carriere
- Tom Carey
- Chris Ippolito
- Brett Manyluk
- Jayson Therrien
- Don Bland
- Adam John Harrington
- Björn Jensen
- Joe Desmond
- Christopher Myles
- David LeReaney
- Jeffery Watson
- David Haysom
- Stephen Warner
- Jason Cermak
- Joe Sutherland
- Ross Crockett
- C. Adam Leigh
- Teresa Hung
- Mandy Stobo
- art director
- Tracey Baryski
- assistant art director
- Kim Zaharko
- camera operator
- Peter Wilke
- Danny Nowak
- Dale Jahraus
- Chris Harris
- steadicam operator
- Peter Wilke
- 1st assistant camera
- Larry Portmann
- Robin Lindala
- Brian Shier
- Grizz Salzl
- 2nd assistant camera
- Clayton Richard Long
- Hiram Schmerer
- Christa Holten
- Geoff Huffman
- loader
- Kelly Strong
- camera trainee
- Christopher Logan
- Luke Towers
- sound mixer
- Garrell Clark
- Gerry Clarke
- boom operator
- Rick Bold
- Peter Melnychuk
- sound assistant
- Justan Ross
- stills photographer
- Chris Large
- video playback
- Rob Doak
- Mark Sebert
- video assist
- Paul Paschny
- continuity
- Nancy McDonald
- Trish Jagger
- script supervisor
- Nancy McDonald
- Trish Jagger
- post-production supervisor
- Julie Lawrence
- 1st assistant picture editor
- Chuck Kahn
- story editor
- John McAndrew
- assistant costume designer
- Kathleen Morley
- set supervisor
- Heather Moore
- truck costumer
- Raven Hehr
- seamstress
- Quynh Chestnut
- costumer
- Caroline Delaney
- Tracy Murray
- Aysim Parkan
- makeup effects designer
- Gail Kennedy
- makeup department head
- Gail Kennedy
- makeup artist
- Joanne Preece
- Rochelle Pomerleau
- makeup effects technician
- Dave Trainor
- makeup assistant
- Danielle Hanson
- Eva McKenzie
- Sharon Toohey
- art department coordinator
- Anisa Lalani
- set designer
- Marilyn Humphreys
- Susan Turner
- graphic artist
- Craig Humphries
- art department trainee
- Cody Baker
- storyboard artist
- Al Berg
- property master
- Dean Goodine
- assistant props master
- Jordy Wihak
- Brian Kent
- armourer
- Brian Kent
- Guy Morrison
- property assistant
- Ken Wills
- machine gun armourer
- Craig Myers
- props builder
- Brian Pfahl
- artillery technical advisor
- Marc George
- Richard Amos
- set decorator
- Janice Blackie-Goodine
- Sean Blackie
- assistant set decorator
- Amber Humphries
- buyer
- Laura Cuthill-Luft
- lead dresser
- Jeremy Wynia
- on-set dresser
- Chris Smith
- dresser
- Megz Reynolds
- Candice Husum
- Tyler Flewelling
- Cody Faubert
- James Kilcher
- set decorator trainee
- Thomas Walker
- hair department head
- Iloe Flewelling
- Chris Glimsdale
- hair assistant
- Daisy Chan
- Judy Durbacz
- Jeanette Stawiarski
- key grip
- John Adshead
- Chris Wiseman
- best boy grip
- Alison Rigby-Stewart
- Jeff Delaney
- dolly grip
- Tim Milligan
- grip
- Henry Kitchen
- Eugene Gogowich
- Greg Fullalove
- Paul Connolly
- Brian Adams
- Charles May
- scorpio head technician
- Scott Wells
- Cary Cooper
- gaffer
- Martin Keough
- Mike Kolafa
- best boy lighting
- Mike Gould
- lamp operator
- Ron Greco
- Dave Kampman
- Josh Whitford
- Jordan Easton
- Diego Medina
- genny operator
- Andrew Thom
- Curtis Otte
- starlite crane operator
- Wes Gilmore
- stunt coordinator
- Kirk Jarrett
- additional stunt coordinating
- James Paradis
- special effects coordinator
- James Paradis
- special effects best boy
- Maurice Routly
- special effects assistant
- Jeff Butterworth
- Kelly Coe
- Stew DePass
- John Edwards
- Graham Hollins
- Kurt Jackson
- Neil Krause
- Amanda Paller
- Gary Paller
- Hayden Scott
- Ty Trand
- stunt rigger
- Christian Fraser
- Jodi Stecyk
- Ty Trand
- Dwayne Wiley
- location manager
- Peter Horn
- assistant location manager
- Ryan Monaghan
- trainee location manager
- Ed Huery
- head wrangler
- T.J. Bews
- wrangler captain
- Dave Leader
- wrangler
- Dwight Beard
- Wright Bruisedhead
- Scott Emerson
- Lara McDonald
- Shawn Wells
- production coordinator
- Joy Bond
- assistant production coordinator
- Cameron Chapman
- trainee production coordinator
- Tracy Noga
- music score producer
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
- conductor
- Alex Pauk
- orchestration
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
- music editor
- Kevin Banks
- Christopher Kennedy
- music recording engineer
- Rafal Paczkowski
- studio engineer
- Dennis Patterson
- music mixer
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
- Rafal Paczkowski
- orchestral segments - performing
- Esprit Orchestra
- cello
- Marek Szpakiewicz
- music contractor
- Jerry Robinson
- post-production
- Technicolor Creative Services
- digital imaging project supervisor
- Patrick Duchesne
- digital imaging project coordinator
- Jeremy Kay
- digital imaging colourist
- Mark Kueper
- digital film technician
- Andrew Pascoe
- Eric Myles
- Jason Giberson
- dailies colourist
- Colin Moore
- digital imaging editor
- Frank Biasi
- sales executive
- Diane Cuthbert
- digital imaging manager
- Brian Reid
- mix assistant
- Kent Thomson
- audio coordinator
- Martin Moreau
- re-recording mixer
- Lou Solakofski
- Steve Foster
- visual effects
- Technicolor Creative Services
- compositing supervisor
- Erik Nordby
- John Fukushima
- computer graphics supervisor
- Pete Dionne
- visual effects coordinator
- Ryan Kuba
- on-set visual effects coordinator
- Cabral Rock
- visual effects executive producer
- Persis Reynolds
- computer graphic artist
- Chris Arnott
- Arlend Engar
- TJ Galda
- Stephen Misek
- Dmitry Vinnik
- Derek Wolfe
- Ben Wylie
- Tong Zhou
- compositor
- Austin Basile
- Dan Brittain
- Colin Liggett
- Sean O'Hara
- Jeremy Price
- Vicki Silva
- Michael Stewart
- Patrick Thompson
- Chris Van Dyck
- Noel Wright
- Matt Yeoman
- i/o
- Steve Elliott
- sound edit
- Tattersall Sound & Picture
- supervising sound editor
- Jane Tattersall
- sound effects editor
- David Rose
- Rod Deogrades
- dialogue editor
- Barry Gilmore
- ADR editor
- Sue Conley
- 1st assistant sound editor
- Kathy Choi
- David Caporale
- 2nd assistant sound editor
- Steve Medeiros
- foley artist
- Goro Koyama
- Andy Malcolm
- foley recording mixer
- Don White
- Jack Heeren
- foley recording assistant
- Jenna Dalla Riva
- Vanessa Marshak
- Anna Malkin
- foley assistant
- Brooke Graeff
- extras casting director
- Marcy Hershon
- extras casting assistant
- Greg Cox
- Curtis Cripps
- Mara Stevens
- casting associate
- Chris Richards
- assistant
- Kevin Krikst
- Hugh Probyn
- 3rd assistant director
- Jesse Cooper
- Lorie Gibson
- production assistant
- William Wagner
- Andrew Campbell
- Jay Carlson
- Jill Thompson
- Brian Sepanzyk
- production accountant
- John Lacroix
- 1st assistant accountant
- Barbara Unrau
- 2nd assistant accountant
- Nancy Ruschin
- Eva Marie MacGregor
- post-production accountant
- Coleen Snyder
- post accounting assistant
- Ed Goldin
- construction coordinator
- Jurgen Lutze
- head carpenter
- Otto Helmig
- construction foreman
- Alain Duperron
- Claude Dupont
- lead carpenter
- Dean Baker
- Steve Pilon
- scenic carpenter
- Rick Barrett
- Fred Norgard
- Michael Rodrigues
- David Tyrrell
- Michael S. Willis
- carpenter
- Tim Andrews
- Shawn Bewick
- Ty Cook
- Stan Delaney
- Greg Fullalove
- Heath Kai
- Emil Roessings
- Blaine Taylor
- Garth Tedford
- Wes Wikkerink
- assistant carpenter
- Steve Sobczyk
- Nigel Woolner
- construction labourer
- Mario Fortier
- Haley Herrington
- Chad Imbach
- first aid
- Shirley Irvine
- Chantal Teasdale
- craft service
- Shirley Irvine
- Chantal Teasdale
- assistant first aid
- Allison Crothers
- assistant craft service
- Allison Crothers
- Cheryl Allsen
- greens coordinator
- Jim Weeks
- lead greens
- Donny Dolan
- on-set greens
- Jesse Irwin
- best boy greens
- Tony Skaper
- greensperson
- Maike Arzillo
- Justin Faubert
- Kelly Wills
- paint coordinator
- Tom Johnson
- paint foreman
- Rick Janzen
- lead painter
- Jeffery Anthony
- Randy Janzen
- scenic painter
- David Belcourt
- John A. Johnston
- Loyola Lewis
- Sam Longbotham
- Elizabeth Pullan
- Kim Stewart
- painter
- Christine McDonald
- Rachel Nickerson
- Jason Webster
- sign painter
- Stu Friesen
- painter's helper
- Scott Cuming
- Craig Pace
- unit publicist
- Cynthia Amsden
- security coordinator
- Peter Gurr
- security guard
- Derrick Berting
- Jon Hurdman
- Jim Leydon
- Ely Pe-Benito
- Bonnie Pettitt
- Garry Robbins
- Alvin Schmunk
- Dianne Walker
- transportation coordinator
- Grant McPhee
- transportation captain
- Tyler Miller
- driver
- Tom Baird
- T.J. Baird
- James Baker
- Shelley Crooks
- Don Dettman
- Fred Dunphy
- Lawrence Gooch
- Don Hart
- Ian Henderson
- Bruce McGregor
- Bruce Milward
- Rinus Nyenhuis
- Debbie Porter
- Woody Pound
- Travis Slade
- Rae Slater
- Bruce Toy
- Rob Tucker
- Hank Yates
- Randy Zacaruk
- Meagan Bishop-Scott
- chef
- Vance Wagner
- assistant chef
- Ryan Chatfield
- Robert Demuth
- Pavel Lidmila
- second unit director
- Francis Damberger
- 2nd unit director of photography
- Danny Nowak
- best boy electric
- Dean Merrells
- cable puller
- Steve Loree
- props assistant
- Sean McGee
- set production assistant
- Jacey Ma
- EPK cinematographer
- James Vandewater
- EPK boom operator
- Kire Paputts
- helicopter pilot
- Tyhlor Kahret
- aerial operator
- A.J. Vesak
- Wescam aerial technician
- Dale Bjerno
- stunt performer
- Dwight Beard
- Dusty Bews
- Guy Bews
- Michelle Bews Anderson
- Don Bland
- Craig Burningham
- Chad Cosgrave
- David Cowley
- Joe Dodds
- Jordan Dodds
- Aron Eastwood
- Denton Edge
- Scott Emerson
- Jarrett Falk
- Chad Fike
- Jim Finkbeiner
- Christian Fraser
- Jason Glass
- Gary Lauder
- Dave Leader
- Roger Lewis
- Shane Pollitt
- Greg Schlosser
- Craig Skene
- Daniel Skene
- Sean Skene
- Jodi Stecyk
- Cam Sutherland
- Cody Thomson
- Kyle Thomson
- Ron Webber
- Ross Wideman
- Dwayne Wiley
- Brent Woolsey
- Ken Zilka
- stand-in
- Ryan Ash
- Katherine Bennett
- Richard Croteau
- Tiffany Hughes
- Mary Liboiron
- Danny Korduner
- Justin Sproule
- Robert Theberge
- accountant
- Dominic Stubbs
- Sandie Bornstein
- business affairs coordinator
- Chris Bell
- office coordinator
- Jo King