

This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?

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This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?

Self

Self (archive footage)

Movie / 1942

Movie / 2014

Movie / 2018

Movie / 2024

Movie / 2015

Movie / 2023

Movie / 2014

Movie / NaN

Movie / 2025

Movie / 1996

Movie / 1990

Movie / 1971

Movie / 1945

Movie / 1941

Movie / 2020

Movie / 2024

Movie / 2024

Movie / 1973

Movie / 1965

Movie / 1970