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Octobre (1994)

Octobre (1994)

Drama
Release Date: 1994, September 30
Directors: Pierre Falardeau
Countries: Canada
Cast: Serge Houde, Gilles Marsolais, Luc Picard, Hugolin Chevrette, Hugo Dubé, François Bessette, Joël Côté, Maryse Mizanin, Jean Bélanger, Richard Barrette, Denise Gagnon, Denis Trudel

Overview:

A dramatization of the abduction and murder of a Quebec government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front. In October 1970, one group from the same organization kidnapped James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner in Montreal. A few days later, a second group kidnapped Pierre Laporte, a minister of the Liberal government. The film tells the story of this last terrorist cell which ended in the cold blooded murder of Laporte.