Jean-Marie Poitevin

Jean-Marie Poitevin (1907-1987), a priest of the Society of the Foreign Missions, ordained in 1933, left the same year for China, where he shot documentary sequences of ethnographic value. Back in Quebec, he wrote and directed this film, in which he plays the missionary himself; it is the only fiction film of the Quebec priest-filmmakers movement. The actor Paul Guèvremont, who plays the lead role, later became the Théophile Plouffe of television.

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• CinemaÀ la croisée des cheminsJean-Marie Poitevin · 1943Cinema