The Snowshoers

Directed by Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
1958    15mDocumentary, Short
6.7
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema. In French with English subtitles.

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Cast of The Snowshoers

  • Maurice RichardHimself (uncredited)
  • Michel BraultDirector
  • Gilles GroulxDirector
  • Louis PortugaisProducer

 

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