Les Filles de Caleb

Les Filles de Caleb
Created by	Jean Beaudin
Written by	Arlette Cousture
Directed by	Jean Beaudin
Starring	Marina Orsini; Roy Dupuis; Germain Houde; Véronique Le Flaguais; Pierre Curzi
Theme music composer	Richard Grégoire
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	French
No. of episodes	20
Production
Editor	Pierre Thériault
Running time	1 hour
Release
Original network	Radio-Canada
Original release	1990-1991
Chronology
Followed by	Blanche (1993)

Les Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture,[1][2] broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada[3] and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.[4][5] An English-language version was also produced and broadcast in English Canada on CBC Television under the name Emilie.

Plot

The series is set in the rural Mauricie region in the Province of Quebec at the end of the 19th century and through the beginning of the 20th century. Émilie, daughter of Caleb Bordeleau, decides to pursue her education. She faces great opposition from her small-minded entourage, but succeeds at becoming a school teacher. She falls in love with one of her students, the adventurer Ovila Pronovost, and is torn between her vocation and her love for him. The Bordeleau and Pronovost families worry about the alliance of these two lovers of such difficult to reconcile passions. After their marriage, they move to the town of Shawinigan and have many children. Ovila, restless and always attracted by wide open spaces, leaves the family to go up North to the Abitibi region, recently opened to colonisation, for opportunities to hunt and lumberjack. Émilie chooses to stay and bring up their family on her own.

Cast

Vincent Bolduc: Napoléon Bordeleau
Marina Orsini: Émilie Bordeleau
Roy Dupuis: Ovila Pronovost
Germain Houde: Caleb Bordeleau
Véronique Le Flaguais: Félicité Pronovost
Pierre Curzi: Dosithée Pronovost
Johanne-Marie Tremblay: Célina Bordeleau
Jessica Barker: Charlotte Baumier
Richard Blaimert: Edmond Pronovost
Hugo Dubé: Joachim Crête
Michel Goyette: Lazare Pronovost
Patrick Goyette: Ovide Pronovost
Lucie Laurier: Émilie, young
Sophie Léger: Antoinette Arcand
Jacques Lussier: Henri Douville
Nathalie Mallette: Berthe Auclair
Étienne de Passillé
Karine Pelletier: Rose Pronovost
Ysabelle Rosa: Rosée Pronovost
Patrick Labbé: Télesphore Pronovost
Annie Major-Matte: Marie-Ange Pronovost

References

W.H. New. A History of Canadian Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 6 August 2003. ISBN 978-0-7735-7136-5. p. 344–.
Adamson, Judith. "Nostalgia for a simpler Quebec". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Jan 09, 1993 F.14
Elspeth Probyn. Outside Belongings. Routledge; 22 December 2015. ISBN 978-1-317-95880-2. p. 159–.
Sharing the Blessings. Médiaspaul; 1996. ISBN 978-2-89420-315-6. p. 111–.
David L. Pike. Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World. University of Toronto Press; 6 December 2012. ISBN 978-1-4426-9832-1. p. 162–.

External links

Les Filles de Caleb at IMDb

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[New2003-1] W.H. New. A History of Canadian Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 6 August 2003. ISBN 978-0-7735-7136-5. p. 344–.

[2] Adamson, Judith. "Nostalgia for a simpler Quebec". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Jan 09, 1993 F.14

[Probyn2015-3] Elspeth Probyn. Outside Belongings. Routledge; 22 December 2015. ISBN 978-1-317-95880-2. p. 159–.

[Grand'MaisonLefebvre1996-4] Sharing the Blessings. Médiaspaul; 1996. ISBN 978-2-89420-315-6. p. 111–.

[Pike2012-5] David L. Pike. Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World. University of Toronto Press; 6 December 2012. ISBN 978-1-4426-9832-1. p. 162–.