| Les Filles de Caleb | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama, romance |
| Creator | Jean Beaudin |
| Directed by | Jean Beaudin |
| Written by | Arlette Cousture |
| Starring | Marina Orsini Roy Dupuis Germain Houde Véronique Le Flaguais Pierre Curzi |
| Music by | Richard Grégoire |
| Editing by | Pierre Thériault |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Original channel | Radio-Canada |
| Release date | 1990-1991 |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Followed by | Blanche (1993) |
Les Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.
The series takes place in Mauricie, in the Province of Quebec, at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The daughter of Caleb Bordeleau, Émilie, decides to continue her studies. She faces great opposition from her small minded entourage, but becomes a school teacher. Falling in love with one of her students, the adventurer Ovila Pronovost, she is torn between her teacher's vocation and her love for Ovila. The families of Bordeleau and of Pronovost are anxious of the alliance of these two lovers, in passions so difficult to reconcile. After their marriage, Émilie chooses to bring up only their family. They move to Shawinigan and have a lot of children. Ovila, always attracted by the big areas, leaves the family to go to live in Abitibi, recently opened to colonisation, with the opportunities of hunt and of hatch which it represents.