The Death of a Lumberjack

Marie Chapdelaine grew up in a remote part of Quebec. She never knew her father. The man worked as a lumberjack in the forest. One day Marie moves to Montreal. In the city she makes her living as a dancer. At the same time she begins to trace her father. She has very little to go on. She finds the woman who was once his lover. The woman agrees to help her. The two of them carry on searching together. In the end the camp where he worked is found. Marie does not find there what she expected. Her father was killed during a labour dispute. Carole Laure and Willie Lamothe appear in the hundred and fifteen minute film, a Canadian production Gilles Carle finished in 1973.