The Incredible Tale of the Rain Machines

200752 min 10 secFilm: Documentary

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Direction: Claude Bérubé

Production: Alain Corneau (Les Productions de la Chasse-Galerie Inc.)Jacques Turgeon (National Film Board of Canada)

Script: Claude Bérubé

Produced by les Productions de la Chasse Galerie in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.

The history of humanity has been littered with individuals who played at witchcraft to try and create rain. Some of them are enshrined in legend. Just ask the denizens of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, an area always eyed by big companies for its rich hydroelectric possibilities. Oh yes, they know about its water! Tragedies like the 1971 landslide in St-Jean-Vianney or the devastating floods of 1996 have left their mark on these people. But could there be something behind these events? A conspiracy involving machines for seeding clouds to make artificial rain? After all, we've known about the eixstence of such machines since the 1950s and there's still some tongue-wagging about the myth of these diabolical appliances.

Cue our modern-day Don Quixote, Rosaire Desbiens, a good-hearted man thirsty for the truth: all he asks is to trace the story of the incredible tale of the rain machines in order to explain the mystery. In French with English subtitles.

Subject categories


  • Environment and Conservation > AllegoriesClimate and WeatherWater Resources
  • Geography and Geology > ClimateQuébecWaters and Flooding
  • Geography > Weather and Climatology

Credits


director
Claude Bérubé
script
Claude Bérubé
producer
Alain Corneau
Jacques Turgeon