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Uniquely Viola
20161 h 15 min 32 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Rodolphe Caron
Production: Jac GautreauMaryse ChapdelaineDominic Desjardins
Script: Rodolphe Caron
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Radio-Canada.
Eighty-five-year-old Viola Léger has been embodying La Sagouine, the famous character from Antonine Maillet’s eponymous 1971 play, for over 40 years. Filmmaker Rodolphe Caron follows the veteran Acadian actress as she prepares for a new series of performances, inviting her to talk about her long and successful career.
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Subject categories
- Women - Portraits > Performing Arts
Credits
- research
- Rodolphe Caron
- Francine Hébert
- writer
- Rodolphe Caron
- director
- Rodolphe Caron
- production manager
- Michelle Paulin
- camera
- Mario Paulin
- Rodolphe Caron
- additional camera
- Marcel Gallant
- location sound
- Serge Arseneault
- Rodolphe Caron
- picture editing
- Julien Cadieux
- original music
- Claude Fournier
- original music - assistance
- Jean-Sébastien Fournier
- music recording studio
- Productions Tibasse
- sound editing
- Paul Goguen
- participant
- Viola Léger
- Antonine Maillet
- Pierre Boudreau
- Eugène Gallant
- Jean Chrétien
- Aline Chrétien
- Jean Lapointe
- Paul Marcel Albert
- Raymond Guy LeBlanc
- Adrien Clavet
- Sylvie Dufour
- Pauline Pelletier
- Philippe Beaulieu
- Alain Tanguay
- Lorraine Bourque
- Huberte Gautreau
- Yolande Castonguay-LeBlanc
- Corinne Gallant
- Lauraine Léger
- Lorraine LeBlanc
- Florine Després
- Lilianne Léger-Maples
- Doris Léger
- Irène Léger
- Eugène Léger
- Laurie Léger
- Agnès Léger
- sound mixing
- Serge Boivin
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- online editing
- Serge Verreault
- infographics
- Mélanie Bouchard
- titles
- Mélanie Bouchard
- transcription services
- Pro Documents
- subtitles
- MELS
- rights clearances
- Francine Hébert
- marketing manager
- François Jacques
- administrator
- Geneviève Duguay
- production coordinator
- Colette Allain
- Audrey Rétho
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Claveau
- Mira Mailhot
- technical support
- Patrick Trahan
- additional technical support
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Pierre Dupont
- Myriam Léger-Bélanger
- legal counsel
- Christian Pitchen
- producer
- Jac Gautreau
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- executive producer
- Dominic Desjardins