Les Plouffe
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In the late 1930s, the members of a family living in Quebec City's lower town face various situations.
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle was a Quebec graphic artist, director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1960, first as a documentary filmmaker, then as a screenwriter, before directing several documentaries, including Percé on the Rocks. In 1965, he made his first feature-length fiction film, La vie heureuse de Léopold Z., although he had only been authorized to make a documentary. In 1966, after being reprimanded by his employer for turning his documentary project into a feature film, he left the NFB for Onyx Productions, with whom he wrote and directed Le viol d'une jeune fille douce (1968), Red (1970) and Les mâles (1971). Gilles Carle made his last feature films in the 1990s.
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Analyse d'un objet culturel : Les Plouffe
Les Plouffe, c’est d'abord le roman de Roger Lemelin, qui, en 1948, imaginait les hauts et les bas des membres d’une famille ouvrière de la ville de Québec. De 1952 à 1955, le roman est devenu le radioroman La famille Plouffe, diffusé au réseau francophone de Radio-Canada. Entre 1953 et 1959, l’œuvre littéraire est devenu un feuilleton, présenté à la télévision de Radio-Canada. Il a également connu une adaptation anglophone sur le réseau CBC Television.
