Mon oncle antoine claude jutra biography

          Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada....

          Mon oncle Antoine

          1971 film by Claude Jutra

          For the 1958 French film, see Mon Oncle.

          Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a 1971 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada.

          Based on an autobiographical screenplay by Clément Perron, Claude Jutra's Mon oncle Antoine () is widely regarded as one of the greatest Canadian films.

        1. Claude Jutra was a Canadian film director.
        2. Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada.
        3. Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and.
        4. Claude Jutra (born Jutras), director, writer, actor, editor, cinematographer (born 11 March in Montréal, QC; died 5 November in Montréal).

          5. The film depicts life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos Region of rural Québec before the Asbestos Strike of 1949. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of 15-year-old boy Benoît (Jacques Gagnon) who is coming of age in a mining town.

          The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event in the years before the Quiet Revolution (c. 1959–1970).

          The film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.[1]

          The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted