Name: They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"
Duration: 56 min

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Structured as a love letter, this feature film is an impressionistic history of the women of Québec down through the ages: the Indigenous woman, the fille du Roy, the nun, the settler's wife, the soldier's wife, and, finally, today's woman.

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Structured as a love letter, this feature film is an impressionistic history of the women of Québec down through the ages: the Indigenous woman, the fille du Roy, the nun, the settler's wife, the soldier's wife, and, finally, today's woman.

director

Anne Claire Poirier
producer

Anne Claire Poirier
executive producer

Jean-Marc Garand
script

Marthe Blackburn

Jeanne Morazain

Anne Claire Poirier
photography

Georges Dufaux
sound

Joseph Champagne
editing

Claire Boyer
re-recording

Michel Descombes

Jean-Pierre Joutel
narrator

Kelly Ricard
music

Maurice Blackburn
animation

Jean-Thomas Bédard
cast

Danielle Ouimet
participant

Anne Claire Poirier

Marie-Josée da Silva

Katherine Deer

Monique Fortier

Suzanne Gervais

Hélène Girard

Berthe Latraverse-Poirier

Nicole Lebreton