February 15, 1839

February 15, 1839
French15 février 1839
Directed byPierre Falardeau
Written byPierre Falardeau
Produced byRené Chénier
Marc Daigle
Bernadette Payeur
StarringLuc Picard
Sylvie Drapeau
Frédéric Gilles
Julien Poulin
Denis Trudel
CinematographyAlain Dostie
Edited byClaude Palardy
Music byJean St-Jacques
Production
companies
Distributed byChristal Films
Release date
  • January 16, 2001 (2001-01-16)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Box office$248,093[1]

February 15, 1839 (French: 15 février 1839) is a 2001 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Pierre Falardeau, it is about the incarceration at the Pied-du-Courant Prison and the execution by hanging there of Patriote participants of the Lower Canada Rebellion. Those rebels sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.

It features as characters the historical figures François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, his wife Henriette and Charles Hindelang.

  1. ^ "15 février 1839 (2001)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved October 9, 2011.