1966 Canadian film
YUL 871 is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Godbout and released in 1966.[2] The film stars Charles Denner as an unnamed Romanian Jewish engineer who is in Montreal on a business trip, although it centres primarily on his personal experiences during the trip, including his search for information about his parents who disappeared in Romania during World War II, and his brief love affair with a younger woman.
The film's cast also includes Andrée Lachapelle, Paul Buissonneau, Francine Landry, Jean Duceppe, Jacques Desrosiers, Louise Marleau and Claude Préfontaine. Musical comedy duo Les Jérolas, consisting of Jérôme Lemay and Jean Lapointe, also appear in the film performing songs.
The film's title refers to the engineer's flight to Montreal; YUL is the IATA code for what was then known as Montreal-Dorval International Airport.[3] Godbout stated the film's positioning of the engineer as Jewish was to set up a parallel between the Jewish people's history of displacement and victimization and the status of the Québécois people.[4]
The film premiered on July 12, 1966 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival,[3] before its theatrical release in Quebec theatres in August.[5] An English dub of the film was also later released.[6] The French version was subsequently broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada in 1969, and the English version was broadcast by the fledgling Global Television Network in 1974.[7]
References
- ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 246.
- ^ a b "First feature from Canada at festival". Ottawa Citizen, July 6, 1966.
- ^ Pearl Sheffy, "Some Tough Talk on Canada Films". Vancouver Sun, August 12, 1966.
- ^ Jean-Guy Pilon, "Yul 871, un film qui donne à voir". Liberté, Vol, 8, No. 5-6 (Sep-Dec 1966). pp. 47-48.
- ^ "English Version of YUL 871". Edmonton Journal, May 23, 1967.
- ^ Albert Ohayon, "YUL 871: A Feature Film for the 1960s". National Film Board of Canada, June 1, 2011.
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