Director
Nadine Beaudet
Production
Les vues du fleuve
Languages
French, Ukranian, Russian
79 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2012
A portrait of the “last of the firsts” Slav migrants in Abitibi.
Synopsis
The Cossack and the Gypsy takes us to the heart of intimate worlds of Lev Chayka and Régine Gabrysz, illustrating their memories, interior views composed of the stories about their childhood and devotion to their country of origin (Ukraine and Soviet Union). The wars and dictatorship of the past in the Eastern Europe is set in contrast with the Far North of Quebec in a forgotten boom town. Vera and Jack, the last miner, Régine and Lev are among the last first immigrants. Their Slavic voices and accents still lull the Abitibi sonorous landscapes, but for how long…
Credits
Script, Research, Directing : Nadine Beaudet
Photography: Christian M. Fournier
Editing : René Roberge
Sound Design : Claude Beaugrand
Music : Charles Papasoff
Production : Christian M. Fournier et Nadine Beaudet avec Les vues du fleuve
Financial Partners
SODEC
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Conseil des arts du Canada
ONF
Spira Film
Nadine Beaudet
Nadine Beaudet has always love the countryside and enjoyed going on journeys in search of adventure and discovering. She’s interested in the relationships that people have with their real and imaginary worlds. Her first feature film, Le Cosaque et la gitane (2012), received the Prix Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (2013). In 2016 she released a documentary, Le chant des étoiles, creating an encounter between astronomy and music, which was selected at the Festival international du film documentaire in Cévennes (France).
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La fille du cratère, 75 min, Documentary, 2019
La maison des Syriens , 80 min, Documentary, 2017
Le chant des étoiles, 77 min, Documentary, 2016
Ces hommes de passage , 7 min, Documentary, 2015
Le cosaque et la gitane, 77 min, Documentary, 2012