Pierre Curzi

Pierre Curzi

Born: February 11, 1946

Movies for Pierre Curzi...

Dissolution
Title: Dissolution
Released: March 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Elderly inmates are dying mysteriously one after another in their prison cells.
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Testament
Title: Testament
Character: Monsieur Duranleau
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-year-old single man, has lost all his bearings in this society. He lives in a retirement home located in a heritage building, managed with care and precision by Suzanne. Their peace is shaken by the arrival of young activists who demand the destruction of a historic fresco. Overwhelmed by an era dominated by political correctness, Jean-Michel will regain faith in humanity with the birth of an unexpected love.
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Une révision
Title: Une révision
Character: Jacques Lamoureux
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
A professor of philosophy teaches lessons to his awakened students. One day, one of his students decides to put his lessons into practice, and she goes on a journey that shakes her deepest convictions.
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Joutel
Title: Joutel
Character: Gérard
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: Movie
When Gérard finds a dead raccoon in his front yard, the old man becomes strangely distressed, shaken by thoughts of his own demise. Jocelyne watches the despair of her husband grow along with his obsession with the animal’s body, and his anguish takes root in her own mind. After a night of torment, they decide to go and bury the raccoon on the land where their house once stood in Joutel, a former mining town deserted since 1998. When they get there, the boreal forest is creeping in on the ruins of her former house, plunging Jocelyne into a deep nostalgia. Here, after a morbid picnic marking the raccoon’s burial, the couple meets a mystical being who leads them to make peace with their inner demons.
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Title: Moi non plus!
Character: Léopold Beaulieu
Released: September 14, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Marie-Claude
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 2021
Type: TV
Marie-Claude Barrette is at the helm of an all-new public affairs series. Recognized for her deep humanity, her sensitivity and her open-mindedness, she pursues her mission of providing audiences with helpful ways to deal with social issues, without taboos.
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Old Buddies
Title: Old Buddies
Character: Gilbert
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Pierrot is serene and has no fear of his premature death. He asks his childhood friend Jacques to help him end his days well. This unusual approach will lead the two friends to a peaceful end.
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Title: La semaine des 4 Julie
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: La semaine des 4 Julie
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Bonsoir bonsoir!
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: TV
Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.
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Title: Cette année-là
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: TV
A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significant year in history, they revisit a cultural event of a previous era and compare it with today’s yardstick. The hosts and their guests examine subjects that link the chosen year to what’s hot in cultural circles right now.
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The Fall of the American Empire
Title: The Fall of the American Empire
Character: Maître Wilbrod Taschereau
Released: June 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns the money will be looking for it. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker recently released from jail might get him out of trouble.
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Title: La vraie nature
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Y'a du monde à messe
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: TV
Public figures from different backgrounds meet each week. At first glance, these guests would seem to have little in common. However, something does unite them all: an event or experience that they have graciously agreed to share that justifies their seat at the same table. As the program unfolds, their shared history is gradually revealed.
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The New Life of Paul Sneijder
Title: The New Life of Paul Sneijder
Character: Maître Wagner-Leblond
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Fièvre politique
Character: Himself
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Vox pop
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2016
Type: TV
The first vox pops are of inestimable sociological value. Now, decades later, André Robitaille takes his mike to the street again to ask passers-by questions on the same subjects. Have we changed at all?
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Chorus
Title: Chorus
Character: Jérôme
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
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Title: PaparaGilles
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Viens-tu faire un tour?
Character: Self
Released: May 25, 2014
Type: TV
Michel Barrette hits the road with public figures. Every drive is the perfect opportunity to share a moment, a chat and a trip down memory lane. For each outing, Michel selects the car best suited to his guest from his personal collection.
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Manigances: Notice rouge
Title: Manigances: Notice rouge
Character: Georges Paoli
Released: November 5, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Deux hommes en or
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: TV
Presented in the form of a large live set, the hosts enlightening interviews with personalities from all walks of life who have made their mark in the news.
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Title: Shenanigans
Character: Georges Paoli
Released: February 14, 2012
Type: TV
A famous novelist invites five friends for dinner. He prepared everything: good wine, small presents for everyone, a good meal and... his suicide as dessert.
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Title: Simplement vedette
Character: Himself
Released: November 28, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Les enfants de la télé
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Club social
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: TV
A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.
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Days of Darkness
Title: Days of Darkness
Character: Pierre
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
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Title: Curieux Bégin
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: TV
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Roméo et Juliette
Title: Roméo et Juliette
Character: Paul Véronneau
Released: December 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he’s been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child. Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused. Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.
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Title: La petite séduction
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: TV
Dany Turcotte invites celebrities to discover a small rural towns in unexpected and surprising ways. Events are carefully planned cater to the celebrity’s tastes, desires and passions.
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Shooting Star
Title: Shooting Star
Character: Gaétan Lemieux
Released: June 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.
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Title: Il va y avoir du sport
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: TV
A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
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How to Conquer America in One Night
Title: How to Conquer America in One Night
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.
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The Barbarian Invasions
Title: The Barbarian Invasions
Character: Pierre
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
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Title: Viens voir les comédiens
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.
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Title: Marguerite Volant
Character: Renaud Larochelle
Released: September 26, 1996
Type: TV
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Chili's Blues
Title: Chili's Blues
Character: Monsieur CN
Released: May 27, 1994
Type: Movie
This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK's assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life.
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Title: Les Intrépides
Released: January 9, 1992
Type: TV
Les Intrépides, is a France-Quebec TV series for children, released between 1993 and 1996, that ran for 52 episodes. The series is about adventures of two kids; Julie Boileau and Tom Miller, whose parents got married and that made them step-siblings. Tom and Julie run their own radio station for kids and help its listeners to resolve their - often criminal - adventures and problems.
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Title: Emilie
Character: Dosithée Pronovost
Released: October 18, 1990
Type: TV
Les Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.
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You're Beautiful, Jeanne
Title: You're Beautiful, Jeanne
Character: Paul
Released: August 26, 1990
Type: Movie
A paraplegic is determined to rebuild her life on her own.
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Babylone
Title: Babylone
Character: Luigi
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A son is accused of involuntary manslaughter while his younger brother is put in a foster home... .
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Dans le ventre du dragon
Title: Dans le ventre du dragon
Character: Le Boss
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
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Title: Des dames de cœur
Character: François O'Neil
Released: December 8, 1986
Type: TV
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The Decline of the American Empire
Title: The Decline of the American Empire
Character: Pierre
Released: June 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
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Blind Trust
Title: Blind Trust
Character: Gildor
Released: March 5, 1986
Type: Movie
A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
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Sonia
Title: Sonia
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.
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Caffe Italia Montréal
Title: Caffe Italia Montréal
Released: September 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Using archival documents, fictions, current accounts, and excerpts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints a nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the men and women taken to a prisoner of war camps during World War II, to the hardships and joys of building vibrant lives in Montréal. Caffè Italia Montréal chronicles a significant chapter in Canada’s history.
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Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Title: Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Character: Napoléon Plouffe
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
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S As in...
Title: S As in...
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily activities, instead he daydreams about the women in his past, about his teenage years, his failed marriage, and even his boyhood desires. His mental images follow each other across the screen, revealing that the women in his life are all the same (different wigs and costumes on the same actress), and his love life never changes either. This sameness can have a dulling effect on the viewers, indicating that if Jean-Baptiste's reminiscences were trimmed and his daydreams more varied and exciting, he would hold interest a little longer.
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Maria Chapdelaine
Title: Maria Chapdelaine
Character: Eutrope Gagnon
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
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Lucien Brouillard
Title: Lucien Brouillard
Character: Lucien Brouillard
Released: March 20, 1983
Type: Movie
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Red Eyes
Title: Red Eyes
Character: Bertrand Houle
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: Movie
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
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Wild Flowers
Title: Wild Flowers
Released: June 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Three generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Pierre
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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The Plouffe Family
Title: The Plouffe Family
Character: Napoléon Plouffe
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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The Red Kitchen
Title: The Red Kitchen
Character: Val Aimé
Released: May 29, 1980
Type: Movie
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
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Fantastica
Title: Fantastica
Character: André
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
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The Angry Man
Title: The Angry Man
Character: Motocycliste
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
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Anastasie oh ma chérie
Title: Anastasie oh ma chérie
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the destructive invasion of family life.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Title: Parlez-nous d'amour
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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L'amour blessé
Title: L'amour blessé
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
A lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their personal problems, she has to come to terms with her own.
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Les allées de la terre
Title: Les allées de la terre
Released: June 27, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Title: Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.
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Far from the Sun
Title: Far from the Sun
Character: Yvon
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
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Title: Bye Bye
Character: Comédien supplémentaire
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: TV
Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the past year.