Le temps de la Manic

Le temps de la Manic

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

May 2, 1980

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Le temps de la Manic

Production Companies

Radio Canada, Institut québécois du cinéma, Vortex

Director

Daniel Le Saunier

Description

Documentary filmed at the end of the Manic-Outardes hydroelectric projects on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence (1978) to pay tribute to the men and women who participated, for 20 years, in the first collective project in modern Quebec. Le Temps de la Manic allows us to follow live the moving end of this era in the company of Jean-Noël Laprise nicknamed “the Switch”, Andrée Laprise (Grenier) his partner, their 4 children Carole, Serge, Yvan and Hélène, by Édouard Hovington and Véronique Hovington, by Camille Brisson, Léo Boisclair, Denis Ouellet, Gérard Debigaré and Fernande Buissière. Everyone has experienced the time of the Manic adventure from the inside. The Prime Minister, Mr. René Lévesque, also appears in the film.