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Back to the Land

Genres

Documentary

Duration

56 min

Director

Pierre Perrault

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

December 31, 1975

Back to the Land

Original title: Le Retour à la terre

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Synopsis Back to the Land

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).