Les Événements d'octobre 1970

A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the October Crisis in the long perspective of history. Compiled from news and other films, it shows independence movements past and present, and their leaders; it reflects the mingled relief, dismay, defiance, when the Canadian army came to Montréal; and it shows how political leaders viewed the intervention.

En octobre 1970, des membres du Front de libération du Québec enlèvent le ministre Pierre Laporte, déclenchant une crise sans précédent au Québec. Cinquante ans plus tard, Félix Rose tente de comprendre ce qui a pu mener son père et son oncle à commettre de tels actes.

In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts.