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L'OtageThe Hostage
An 80-year-old Briton, one among so many retirees in the town of Seaford on the Sussex coast. Among his memories is one that overshadows all others: Montreal, October 1970. James Richard Cross was a foreign diplomat caught up in the most dramatic political crisis in Canadian history. He was abducted by a cell of the Quebec Liberation Front, headed by Jacques Lanctôt and for 59 days held hostage to pay for colonial misdeeds. For an entire week he shared the same fate as Pierre Laporte: for several hours on radio and TV, he too was reported as dead. Today, he looks back on those events, along with his wife, Barbara, his daughter, Susan, and Lanctôt himself. Together, thirty years after the events, they form a chorus of sad memories in a century full of ideas and upheavals.
Canada - 2004 - 1 h 26 mn - Betacam SP - Colour
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