Les Ordres

Les Ordres
Directed by	Michel Brault
Produced by	Gui Caron Bernard Lalonde
Written by	Michel Brault
Starring	Jean Lapointe Hélène Loiselle Guy Provost Claude Gauthier Louise Forestier
Cinematography	Michel Brault François Protat
Editing by	Yves Dion
Release date(s)	September 27, 1974
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Orders (original title: Les Ordres, known in the United States as: Orderers) is a 1974 Quebec historical drama film about the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 October Crisis and the War Measures Act enacted by the Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau. It is the second film by director Michel Brault. It features entertainer and Senator Jean Lapointe.

The film tells the story of five of those incarcerated civilians. It is scripted but is inspired by a number of interviews with actual prisoners made during the events and its style is heavily inspired by the Quebec school of Cinéma vérité. It is a docufiction. It won a Cannes Film Festival Award in 1975 and four Canadian Film Awards (predecessor of the Genie Awards) the same year.

1 Cast
2 Awards
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Cast

Jean Lapointe - Clermont Boudreau
Hélène Loiselle - Marie Boudreau
Guy Provost - Dr. Jean-Marie Beauchemin
Claude Gauthier - Richard Lavoie
Louise Forestier - Claudette Dusseault

Awards

1975 Cannes Film Festival, won for Best Director^[1] (Michel Brault, tied with Costa Gavras for Section spéciale)
1975 Cannes Film Festival, nominated for Golden Palm (Michel Brault)
1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Feature Film (Claude Godbout, Guy Dufaux and Bernard Lalonde)
1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Film of the Year (Guy Dufaux, Claude Godbout and Bernard Lalonde)
1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Original Script (Michel Brault)
1975 Canadian Film Awards, won for Best Direction (Michel Brault)
Thrice ranked as one of the seven best Canadian films in all three of the TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time surveys (in 1984, 1993 and 2004) of the Toronto International Film Festival

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Les Ordres". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2168/year/1975.html. Retrieved 2009-04-28.

External links

Canadian Film Award/Genie Award winners for Best Motion Picture

Canadian Film Award	À tout prendre (1964) • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965) • Le Festin des Morts (1966) • Warrendale (1967) • The Ernie Game (1968) • The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969) • Goin' Down the Road (1970) • Mon oncle Antoine (1971) • Wedding in White (1972) • Slipstream (1973) • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) • Les Ordres (1975) • Lies My Father Told Me (1976) • J.A. Martin Photographer (1977) • The Silent Partner (1978)

Genie Award	The Changeling (1980) • Les Bons débarras (1981) • Ticket to Heaven (1982) • The Grey Fox (1983) • The Terry Fox Story (1984) • The Bay Boy (1985) • My American Cousin (1986) • Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987) • Un Zoo la nuit (1988) • Dead Ringers (1989) • Jésus de Montréal (1990) • Black Robe (1991) • Naked Lunch (1992) • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) • Exotica (1994) • The Confessional (1995) • Lilies (1996) • The Sweet Hereafter (1997) • The Red Violin (1998) • Sunshine (1999) • Maelström (2000) • Atanarjuat (2001) • Ararat (2002) • Les Invasions barbares (2003) • Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004) • C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) • Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) • Away from Her (2007) • Passchendaele (2008) • Polytechnique (2009) • Incendies (2010)

Les Ordres

Contents

Cast

Awards

See also

References

External links