Le déserteur (film)

Le déserteur is a 2008 Quebec feature film directed by Simon Lavoie. The film stars Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Raymond Cloutier, Danielle Proulx, Viviane Audet, Benoit Gouin and Gilles Renaud.[1][2]

This article is about the 2008 film. For the opera, see Le déserteur. For the Borix Vian song, see Le Déserteur (Boris Vian song).
Le déserteur
Directed bySimon Lavoie
Produced bySimon Lavoie
Written bySimon Lavoie (play)
StarringÉmile Proulx-Cloutier
Raymond Cloutier
Danielle Proulx
Viviane Audet
Benoit Gouin
Gilles Renaud
Release date
2008
Running time
90 min
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

It tells the story of Georges Guénette, a deserter from the Canadian Army during World War II, who was shot and killed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Background

Georges Guénette was a deserter from the Canadian Army and, like many French Canadians during World War II, an opponent of the war and conscription.

In May 1944, a few months after Guénette deserted from the army, four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers found Guenette in his father's farmhouse, in St-Lambert-de-Lévis (near Quebec City). He jumped out of a window and ran across the fields. Guénette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," and died without the last rites of the church.[3]

Two RCMP officers were later charged with manslaughter in Guénette's death, and the shooting was an issue in the 1944 Quebec general election.[4]

References
  1. Kellt, Brendan (October 23, 2008). "Review: Le Deserteur". The Gazette. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  2. Demers, Maxime (December 19, 2007). "Georges Guénette, déserteur". Le Journal de Montréal (in French).
  3. Time, Monday, May 22, 1944 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,796595,00.html)
  4. "The Week in Quebec". The Coaticook Observer. November 17, 1944. Retrieved 2008-10-25.


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