The Dionne Quintuplets

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.

• Donald BrittainDirector

• Annette DionneSelf (Archive Footage)
• Cécile DionneSelf (Archive Footage)
• Émilie DionneSelf (Archive Footage)
• Marie DionneSelf (Archive Footage)
• Yvonne DionneSelf (Archive Footage)
• Pierre BertonNarrator