October 1970 (film)

October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist and marxist group, the Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered.

It was severely criticised by articles of and letters to Le Devoir :

• How to become a hero « If he is still alive, [Giguère] must be dying of laughter »
• To be seen sep 12 on TV, the series in French « ... clearly distorted for dramatisation purposes »
• Radio-Canada [the French-language counterpart of CBC] was doubtful of the series' quality
• Letters about the series October 1970 (by Jacques Lanctôt himself)
• CBC's series about FLQ : War, yes my colonel « ... giving back life, against all historical obviousness, to the ludicrous idea of a plot aiming to institute a temporary government in October 70. »

Cast: (in credits order)

• Patrick Labbé : Julien Giguère
• Karine Vanasse : Christine (fictional character designed by combining Carole Devault with Louise Verreault^[1])
• Denis Bernard : Pierre Laporte
• Hugh Thompson : McLeery
• Mathieu Grondin : Jacques Lanctôt
• Fanny La Croix : Louise Lanctôt
• Mark Day : Mark Lepage
• Gary Levert : Michel St-Louis (reporter)
• Eric Paulhus : Bernard Lortie
• Hugo Saint-Cyr : Paul Rose
• R.H. Thomson : James Cross
• Paul Doucet : Jean-Marc
• Derek Moran : Branko
• Paulino Nunes : Sgt Albert Lisacek

References

External links

• October 1970 on IMDb