October 1970 (film)

*October 1970*
October 1970
Written by	Wayne Grigsby; Peter Mitchell
Directed by	Don McBrearty
Starring	Patrick Labbé; Karine Vanasse, Fanny La Croix, Denis Bernard; Mark Day; Hugo Saint-Cyr; Gary Levert
Theme music composer	Jonathan Goldsmith
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Laszlo Barna; Wayne Grigsby; David MacLeod
Running time	480 minutes
Original release
Release	October 12, 2006;

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 province of Quebec, Canada when members of the nationalist terrorist group the 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.

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

How to become a hero « If he is still alive, [Giguère] must be dying of laughter »
To be seen sep 12 on TV, the series in French « ... clearly distorted for dramatisation purposes »
Radio-Canada [the French-language counterpart of CBC] was doubtful of the series' quality
Letters about the series October 1970 (by Jacques Lanctôt himself)
CBC's series about FLQ : War, yes my colonel « ... giving back life, against all historical obviousness, to the ludicrous idea of a plot aiming to institute a temporary government in October 70. »

Cast: (in credits order)

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