The Plouffe Family

the Family Plouffe is an emission of radio and Québécois Télévision adapted of a novel of Roger Lemelin. The series was the first Téléroman with great success of the history of television in Quebec.

Québécois creation of a soap with American, the series was a great success with the radio of State in 1952, then on television being born from the time from the black and white between 1953 and 1959, in evening weekly. During its televisual life, it was carried out by Jean-Paul Fugère, Guy Beaulne, then Jean Dumas. Lemelin collaborated in the adaptation of its work to the cinema with the realizers of two films: Gilles Carle and Denys Arcand, respectively for Plouffe in 1981 and the Crime of Ovide Plouffe in 1984, which wanted to be one following the first.

Synopsis

Drawn from the novel of Roger Lemelin Plouffe, the Téléroman the Family Plouffe tells the life with the daily newspaper of a family of working medium at the end of the years 1940 with Quebec, with leaving the Second world war. One is pilot there passion for the cycling of the father, Theophilus Plouffe, typographer of trade, which succeeds in involving his/her son Napoleon in his wake and which one sees, to the wire of the episodes, to melt the parental authority. One attends the illicit loves of Cécile, “the hurdy-gurdy girl”, with Onésime Ménard, a married bus driver which she possibly marries. One almost manages to undergo the philosophico-intellectual tirades and wild imaginings of Ovide, another son of Theophilus, who aspires to better than his state of proletarian and éprend for Rita Toulouse, a luke-warm and well turned girl whom he will marry. One occasionally receives the specific visit of the uncle Alexandre, white Père in Africa when it is of passage to the country, or that of the “father Gédéon”, a relative pare-in-train of Beauce Québécois which always pushes some joke sometimes grivoise or a song to animate the company. With the row of the characters pivots of the series, the figure matriarcale, “mom Plouffe” which takes care of the grain for all its kids, until the small last, Guillaume, an athletic strapping man whom the girls like. Many characters of support contribute to sometimes unexpected outcomes, the whole with many points of humor.

The series paints a discrete picture of the social context and conflicts politico-monk of the time of the post-war period in Quebec, the beginning of open rejection of the institutionalized capacity and combat for an increased civil capacity, and takes part consequently in the company still mainly rural or it is diffused with a reinforcement of the changes of social models, or at the very least encourages with the analysis. The series throws especially a romantic glance on a poor family and “not celebrates”, with the dramatic kind of screen of the Dallas, Dynasty or General Hospital which will follow, but in a different social context adapted to the audience. In addition at the time of its diffusion on line, publicities were integrated into the screen of the emission, just like one did it before with the radio, by means of the same actors who praised either the virtues of the cigarette of a certain manufacturer in a scene with the general store of the corner, or the innovation and superiority of a detergent rather than another… from where the denomination étatsunienne of “ soap ” for the televisual kind.

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External bond

Amanda Alarie and Denyse Furrier in a scene of the telesery

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