The Death of a Lumberjack

Year: 1973

Runtime: 115 mins

Language: French

Director: Gilles Carle

Drama

This meditative French‑Canadian drama follows Marie Chapdelaine, raised in a remote Quebec area and never having met her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, works as a topless dancer, and, with the help of the man's former lover, tracks down his lumber camp, only to learn he was killed in a labor dispute.

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