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It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.
Director
Producer
Music
Original Title
Le Torrent
Original Language
French
Cast
Full credits →V
Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
François
L
Laurence Leboeuf
Amica / Claudine
D
Dominique Quesnel
Dominique
A
Anthony Therrien
François
M
Marco Bacon
Peddler
R
Roger Blay
Clochard
N
Normand Canac-Marquis
Headmaster
A
Aubert Pallascio
Vieil instituteur
M
Martin Desgagné
Jeune instituteur
D
David Noël
Jeune homme du dortoir
P
Pierre Bédard
Homme violent
M
Micheline Poitras
Religisieuse
J
Johanne Loiselle
Religisieuse
