INDEX : THE WAR TO END ALL WARS (LA GUERRE OUBLIÉE)
     
  TITLE: THE WAR TO END ALL WARS (LA GUERRE OUBLIÉE)
  DIRECTOR: Richard Boutet
  PRODUCER: Vent d’Est Films
  CAST: Joe Bocan
 
SYNOPSIS: This film tells the story of Québécois who lived through the First World War. Images taken from archive films and moving testimonies from fifteen World War I soldiers and citizens are tied together with a few fictional scenes.
  Featuring fourteen songs by the lovely and thrilling Joe Bocan in the role of the Madelon.
  Winner of the Alberta-Quebec Prize for Innovative Cinema. The Radio-Canada broadcast drew 900,000 viewers across Canada.
       
  1988 | 97 minutes | colour | 35 mm | feature film docu-drama| French original version | English dubbed version. |  

 
   
“LA GUERRE OUBLIÉE is a beautiful film that underlines the horrors of the 1914-18 war. ”
-LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL
     
“Songs superbly interpreted by Joe Bocan.
For once a documentary that is an excellent musical and visual show.”
-Francine Laurendeau, LE DEVOIR
     

“The First World War is relived through the testimonies of eye-witnesses, through archive footage and (above all) thanks to the voice of Joe Bocan“
-LA PRESSE
             
 
 
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