In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.
Donald Brittain
Director
Annette Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Cécile Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Émilie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Marie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Yvonne Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Pierre Berton
Narrator
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