Saint Martyrs of the Damned | |
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French | Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés |
Directed by | Robin Aubert |
Written by | Robin Aubert |
Produced by | Luc Vandal Roger Frappier |
Starring | François Chénier Patrice Robitaille Isabelle Blais |
Cinematography | Steve Asselin |
Edited by | Michel Arcand |
Music by | Yves Desrosiers |
Production company | Max Films |
Distributed by | Christal Films |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Saint Martyrs of the Damned (French: Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robin Aubert and released in 2005.[1] The film stars François Chénier as Flavien Juste, a tabloid reporter who writes about strange paranormal phenomena; when he is sent to the small Quebec town of Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés to investigate a series of strange disappearances, his photographer colleague Armand (Patrice Robitaille) disappears as well, but he finds the townspeople actively impeding his efforts to locate his friend.[2]
The cast also includes Isabelle Blais, Guy Vaillancourt, Monique Mercure, Monique Miller, Sylvie Boucher, Pierre Collin, Michel Forget, Carl Hennebert-Faulkner, Germain Houde, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, André Lacoste, Mathilde Lavigne, Hubert Loiselle, Alexis Martin, Alec Poirier, David Savard and Luc Senay.
The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005,[3] before going into commercial release in October.[1]