| Traitor or Patriot | |
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| Traître ou patriote | |
| Directed by | Jacques Godbout |
| Starring | Jacques Godbout |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Traitor or Patriot (French:Traître ou patriote) is aQuebecdocumentaryproduced by theNational Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 2000. It is directed by and starringJacques Godbout. Its style belongs to the Quebeccinéma direct school offilmmaking.
It analyzes the place ofQuebec PremierAdélard Godbout in history. Godbout is not well-considered by Quebec historians and citizens. Adérald Godbout was theSecond World War–era Quebechead of government, and the great-uncle of thedirector. Godbout advances some theories to explain why his great-uncle was forgotten in the collective memory of theQuebecers. One theory is that Adélard Godbout was more favourable than other political leaders toconscription.Quebec nationalists, at the time, opposed conscription, which they saw as aBritish imperialist manoeuvre ofEnglish Canada to defend theEmpire.[1]
Like other documentaries of his (The Black Sheep, for example),Traître ou Patriote showcases Jacques Godbout's own style of putting himself into thenarrative thread: he sets up scenes where he researches his subject and interacts with others, to help push the documentary forward. One example of this is when he is filmed asking historians at a reception if they can recognize the picture of Godbout, the politician, which they cannot. Jacques Godbout provides his own voice for the voice-overs of the English version.
Quebec history. Adélard Godbout - - Quebec History - Histoire du Québec. (n.d.). Retrieved October 14, 2022, fromhttp://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/bios/godbout.htm
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