Director
Paul Tana
Production
ACPAV | Marc Daigle
Language
French
Year
1985
81 minutes, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
Avoiding the trap of nostalgia, using both archival documents, fictions, current testimonies and extracts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints an attached and nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the concert of the young rocker Aldo Nova, the film highlights, sometimes with humor, the contradictions of Italians here, deeply divided between the attachment to their homeland of origin and the need to be fully accepted by Quebec society.
Script : Bruno Ramirez, research Paul Tana
Directed by Paul Tana
Images : Michel Caron
Sound : Serge Beauchemin, Dominique Chartrand, Thierry Morlaas-Lurbe
Music : Pierre Flynn, Enzo Grande (theatre sketches), Andrea Piazza
Editing : Louise Surprenant
Art direction : Carole Paré (theatre sketches), Gaudeline Sauriol
Paul Tana
Born in Ancone, Italy in 1947, Paul Tana emigrates in Quebec at age 11. His films are tainted by his origins and are often seen as the Italian face of Quebec’s Cinema.
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