Summer Crisis

Name: Summer Crisis
Director: Alain Chartrand
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2013-09-13
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Mikhaïl Ahooja, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Benoît Langlais, Charles-Alexandre Dubé, Geneviève Boivin-Roussy

Directed by Alain Chartrand

Drama

History

20131h 37m5.1

Overview

In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman's son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the 'Fisherman's House'. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists, hippies, rockers, hitchhikers and the like shake local authorities. Bernard is won over by the trio's ideas and gets increasingly involved in their project. The following year, the will join the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the Summer Crisis 1969.