Bound for Glory (1975 film)

Bound for Glory (French: Partis pour la gloire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Clément Perron and released in 1975.[1]

Bound for Glory
FrenchPartis pour la gloire
Directed byClément Perron
Produced byMarc Beaudet
Written byClément Perron
StarringSerge L'Italien
Rachel Cailhier
Jacques Thisdale
André Melançon
Music byFrançois Dompierre
CinematographyGeorges Dufaux
Edited byPierre Lemelin
Production
company
Release date
  • October 15, 1975 (1975-10-15)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Set against the backdrop of the 1942 Canadian conscription plebiscite,[2] the film is set in a small town in the Beauce region of Quebec where resistance to the war is high and many men have fled into the woods to escape being conscripted.[3] The film's cast includes Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon, Yolande Roy, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Louise Ladouceur and Jean-Pierre Masson.

Melançon won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor at the 27th Canadian Film Awards.[4]

References
  1. "Première du film «Partis pour la gloire»". Bilan du siècle (Université de Sherbrooke).
  2. Lever, Y. (2012). "Le cinéma québécois et la Seconde Guerre mondiale". Bulletin d'histoire politique, 20(3), 24–35. https://doi.org/10.7202/1056196ar.
  3. "Clément Perron's Partis pour la gloire". Cinema Canada, February 1976. pp. 45-46.
  4. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 111-114.


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