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The Death of a Lumberjack

The Death of a Lumberjack

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 25, 1973

Runtime

1h 55m

Genres

Drama

User Score

47%

Original Title

La mort d'un bûcheron

Production Companies

Cinévision

Director

Gilles Carle

Budget

$250,000

Description

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.