The Long Winter (1999 film)

The Long Winter French title Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore is a 1999 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Michel Brault, it is a partly fictionalized account of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.

The main protagonist is Patriote FranoisXavier Bouchard. The latter comes back to Lower Canada in the autumn of 1838 after having escaped to the United States as a number of Patriotes did indeed, after the first uprising, in that year. As soon as he returns, despite the exhortations of his family, he joins FranoisMarieThomas Chevalier de Lorimier for another attempt. Following a hasty trial, Bouchard, Chevalier de Lorimier and others are sentenced to death.

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