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Le dserteur (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Le dserteur' is a 2008 Quebec feature film directed by Simon Lavoie. The film stars mile Proulx-Cloutier, Raymond Cloutier, Danielle Proulx, Viviane Audet, Benoit Gouin and Gilles Renaud.
It tells the story of Georges Gunette, a deserter from the Canadian Army during World War II, who was shot and killed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Background
Georges Gunette was a deserter from the Canadian Army and, like many French Canadians during World War II, an opponent of the war and conscription.
In May 1944, a few months after Gunette deserted from the army, four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers found Guenette in his father's farmhouse, in St-Lambert-de-Lvis (near Quebec City). He jumped out of a window and ran across the fields. Gunette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," and died without the last rites of the church.Time, Monday, May 22, 1944 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20081214230459/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,796595,00.html])
Two RCMP officers were later charged with manslaughter in Gunette's death, and the shooting was an issue in the 1944 Quebec general election.
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Category:2008 films
Category:Canadian drama films
Category:Films about deserters
Category:Films directed by Simon Lavoie
Category:French-language Canadian films
Category:2000s Canadian films
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