Troublemaker [Trouble-fete]

Montreal: Cooperation Productions, 1964. Vintage Canadian black-and-white lobby card from the 1964 film. In original mailing envelope from "Office National du Film Canada," and "Trouble-fete" in manuscript ink on the front. Handsome starring actor Rodrigues is seen in police accouterments, checking his perimeters.

Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests and fighting to change the moral face of his college. He changes the life of an incompetent teacher, is expelled from school, and accidentally causes the death of a gay man. Religious themes, human sexuality, and an early entry in Canadian feature film industry, just as the country's federal government took measures to expand cinema audiences. Director Patry's first feature film, his earlier ventures, part of the cinema vérité movement, include "Eye Witness No. 99" (1958), "The Little Sisters" (1959), "Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien" (1960), "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine" (1962), and "Françoise" (1964). Photographer Charron also worked on Patry's "Rope Around the Neck" (1965), and Lord's "Délivrez-nous du mal" (1966).

Set in Montreal.

11 x 13.75 inches. Very Good overall, moderate creasing and short tears.

[Book #143862]