Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montreal of today.
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- Released
- Production
- ONF | NFB
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Gilles Marsolais as Narrator (voice)
Gisèle Trépanier as Narrator (voice)
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Denys Arcand · Director
Andrée Thibault · Writer
Michel Brault · Cinematographer
Bernard Gosselin · Cinematographer
Monique Fortier · Editor
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