October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the Canadian province of Quebec, when members of the militant separatist group Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered.

October 1970
Written byWayne Grigsby
Peter Mitchell
Directed byDon McBrearty
StarringPatrick Labbé; Karine Vanasse, Fanny La Croix, Denis Bernard
Mark Day
Hugo Saint-Cyr
Gary Levert
Theme music composerJonathan Goldsmith
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersLaszlo Barna
Wayne Grigsby
David MacLeod
Running time480 minutes
Original release
ReleaseOctober 12, 2006 (2006-10-12)

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October 1970 was severely criticised by articles of and letters to Le Devoir :

References edit

  1. ^ "Comment devenir un héros". Le Devoir. November 8, 2006.

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