The Torrent

It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.

• Normand CorbeilOriginal Music Composer
• Anne HébertWriter
• Simon LavoieDirector

• Victor Andres Trelles TurgeonFrançois
• Laurence LeboeufAmica / Claudine
• Dominique QuesnelDominique
• Anthony TherrienFrançois
• Marco BaconPeddler
• Roger BlayClochard
• Normand Canac-MarquisHeadmaster
• Aubert PallascioVieil instituteur
• Martin DesgagnéJeune instituteur
• Alain GabrielSurveillant
• David NoëlJeune homme du dortoir
• Mario GenestMaquignon