This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
Gilles Carle
Writer, Director
Arthur Lamothe
Writer

Carole Laure
Marie Chapdeleine

Willie Lamothe
Armand St. Amour

Daniel Pilon
François Paradis

Pauline Julien
Charlotte Juillet

Marcel Sabourin
Ti-Noir L'Esperance

Denise Filiatrault
Blanche Bellefeuille

Jacques Gagnon

Roger Le Bel
Paper employee union archivist

Ernest Guimond
Wilfred
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