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Ville-Marie
196527 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Denys Arcand
Production: André Belleau
Script: Andrée Thibault
Today it is the city of Montréal, but three centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montréal of today.
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Subject categories
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Catholic ChurchHistorical PerspectivesReligious Communities
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Immigration and SettlementNew France 1600-1760PortraitsQuébecWomen
- Media Education > Documentary Film
- History > Early Colonization/Settlement
- Indigenous Studies > History/Politics
- Social Studies > Social History
Credits
- director
- Denys Arcand
- executive producer
- André Belleau
- script
- Andrée Thibault
- camera
- Bernard Gosselin
- Michel Brault
- Jacques Leduc
- editing
- Monique Fortier
- sound editing
- Pierre Bernier
- music
- Pierre Henry
- Pierre Schaeffer
- Donald Mackey