La Famine du bois
Jean Saulnier approaches the work of Henri Julien, Quebec’s great painter and illustrator, using an historical incident. During the winter of 1871-72, Montreal was caught in long, brutal cold spell. Firewood was lacking and its most vulnerable citizens, the French Canadians and Irish Catholics, suffered cruelly from often fatal poverty. Seeing a possibility in playing up his “Train du Nord” rail project, the entrepreneur priest Antoine Labelle came to Montreal’s rescue. Two virtual characters, the singer Rosa Derina, and the artist Henri Julien, with the aid of Thierry Sauer, bring to life the lithographs published in the newspapers of the time, an invaluable testimony to historical, human and social history.
Canada - 2003 - 28 mn - Betacam SP - Colour and B&W
Director
Jean Saulnier
Script
Jean Saulnier
Animation
Thierry Sauer
Camera
Jean Saulnier, Thierry Sauer
Sound
Louis Desparois
Editing
Jean Saulnier
Music
Bernard Buisson
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Production
Vent d'Est Films,
1750 rue St-André, Bureau 3028,
H2L 3T8 Montréal, Québec, Canada
Tél : +1 514 523 3163
Fax : +1 514 523 4424
E-mail : ventdest@videotron.ca
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Sales
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