This work recounts the final moments of the Patriotic Conflict of 1837–1838 through the eyes of Charles and Guillaume Beauchamp, two brothers united by blood, loyalty, and the ideal of freedom. As the rebellion collapses under pressure from British forces, the two young Patriots, hiding at the home of a former friend of their deceased father, attempt to flee brutal repression. Their journey becomes a heartfelt cry for a nation yet to be born.
Éric Cabana
Philippe de Colbert
Jean Drolet
Dr. Robert Nelson
Stéphane E. Roy
Patrick
Stéphane Crête
Dr. James Perrigo
Stephanie White
Assistante de la metteuse en scène
Yves Corbeil
Louis-Joseph Papineau
This work recounts the final moments of the Patriotic Conflict of 1837–1838 through the eyes of Charles and Guillaume Beauchamp, two brothers united by blood, loyalty, and the ideal of freedom. As the rebellion collapses under pressure from British forces, the two young Patriots, hiding at the home of a former friend of their deceased father, attempt to flee brutal repression. Their journey becomes a heartfelt cry for a nation yet to be born.
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.