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Pierre Perrault
Director 1927 - 1999

Pierre Perrault

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pierre Perrault OQ (29 June 1927 – 23 June 1999) was a Canadian documentary film director with the National Film Board of Canada. Over his 40-year career, he directed 32 films and was one of Canada's most important filmmakers, although he was largely unknown outside of Québec.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

3 titles
La bête lumineuse

La bête lumineuse

Pierre Perrault 1982 2h 8m

A documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.

Le règne du jour

Le règne du jour

Pierre Perrault 1967 1h 58m

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.

Pour la suite du monde

Pour la suite du monde

Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault 1963 1h 46m

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

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