October 1970 (film)
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October 1970 | |
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Written by | Wayne Grigsby Peter Mitchell |
Directed by | Don McBrearty |
Starring | Patrick Labbe; Karine Vanasse, Fanny La Croix, Denis Bernard Mark Day Hugo Saint-Cyr Gary Levert |
Theme music composer | Jonathan Goldsmith |
Original language(s) | English |
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Producer(s) | Laszlo Barna Wayne Grigsby David MacLeod |
Running time | 480 minutes |
Distributor | CBC Television |
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October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist terrorist group the Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered.
Cast: (in credits order)
- Patrick Labbe : Giguere
- Karine Vanasse : Christine
- Denis Bernard : Pierre Laporte
- Hugh Thompson : McLeery
- Mathieu Grondin : Jacques Lanctot
- Fanny La Croix : Louise Lanctot
- Mark Day : Mark Lepage
- Gary Levert : Michel St-Louis (reporter)
- Eric Paulhus : Bernard Lortie
- Hugo Saint-Cyr : Paul Rose
- R.H. Thomson : James Cross
- Paul Doucet : Jean-Marc
- Derek Moran : Branko
- Craig Harris : Police Officer
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). October 1970 at IMDb
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