Cormorant (television serial)

Cormoran is a Feuilleton televised Québécois in 78 60 minutes episodes, created by Pierre Gauvreau and diffused on the network Francophone of the Société Radio-Canada between the September 4th 1990 and the December 6th 1993.

Synopsis

Second Television serial of a trilogy, it is between the Time of a peace and the quiet Volcano .

The action proceeds 1936 at the beginning of the Second world war.

In the fictitious village of Bay-in Esprit, localized in the Low-St-Laurent with the height of Kamouraska, Bella Cormorant, a pretentious, proud and haughty woman lives. Oldest daughter of a middle-class family, it lives the manor and the field Cormoran with her brother doctor, the Pacific, a tormented but appreciated being, and her Angélique sister, soft and naive, married to Germain Lafond who is rather lout.

Bleated saw an experiment traumatisante which will change it largely; in spite of its advanced age, it becomes unmarried mother following her meeting with Wolfgang Osnabrück, a German Géologue of passage for which it éprend. At the time when the second world war begins, Bella chooses to assume its maternity, with considering and with known everyone .

The phantom of Rene Cormorant, brother of Bleated, Pacifique and Angelica, deceased a few years before in Quebec in circumstances nebulas, always grinds. Its widow, Ginette Durivage, one rejected of Handle-with-Cursed, try to make recognize her rights.

The butcher of the village, Clement Veilleux, creates a named association the Blue Shirts, which preaches the Nazisme actively. To trust of a certain resemblance to Benito Mussolini, Veilleux is also inspired by Adrien Arcand and its fascistic ideologies .

Viateur Bernier succeeds not without sorrow his Théodule father as a mayor and a head of undertaking.

Distribution

Data sheet

  • Decorations: Joseph Mandalian carried out the decorations of the series, in particular Handle-with-Cursed.
  • Music: Marie Bernard

Rewards

Episodes

First season (1990-1991)

See also: Season 1 of Cormorant

Second season (1991-1992)

See also: Season 2 of Cormorant

Third season (January in April 1993)

See also: Season 3 of Cormorant

Fourth season (September in November 1993)

See also: Season 4 of Cormorant

Comments

Making off

A making off of the Téléroman was produced in the form of a report within the framework of the estival emission Vu terrace in 1998 or 1989 on the waves of SRC.

Repeat broadcasts

An episode was the subject of a repeat broadcast during a special program entitled A whole evening with Pierre Gauvreau the January 7th 2006 and two others within the framework of special the Vive the babies on the chain ARTV.

Interior and external places of turning

  • the Stained manor and its field, old chief town of the Seigneurie of Kamouraska and located on bank of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence at Kamouraska were used as decoration for the external scenes (Cormoran field).
  • the Paradis mill located at Kamouraska was used for the residence of Gerard, Léonie then Leon Labrecque.
  • the old law courts of Kamouraska was briefly seen in the first episode.
  • the hotel of Hippolyte Belzile and his Donatienne wife is with Saint-Andre-with-Kamouraska.
  • the small Delisle school of River-Ouelle was used as school of row.
  • the church of Our-Lady-of-Bearing became that of Bay-in Esprit, just as the presbytery.
  • the majority of the interior scenes were turned in the studios of SRC in Montreal.

Documents of files

The Funds of files Pierre Gauvreau of Library and Archives Canada includes/understands a named series Tapuscrits and documents of production of the television serial Cormoran .

Quotation

“Cursed race! Cursed race of rotted birds! Cormorant! Oh, the beautiful name which one has! Cormorant, cursed bird of the seas which destroys all, which cannot reproduce without all to devastate around him. Be proud for you to be Cormoran, my sister. Will see in the islands, where they make their nests! All dies around them. Even their manure makes rot the plants. The simple pleasure of living is a too modest flower for our ambitions. Let us refuse what is offered to us of any frankness! Let us eat ham in the time of geese and cry geese while the slaughter-houses abound in pigs. If one cannot live in the time of the things, are those which forge the hitches. ”

Final message

“So that deaths cease controlling the alive ones! ”

Both Maureen Bellavance

August 1st (to be supplemented: Tragic accident of Michele Craig)

See too

External bond

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