Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making

The read

The series ran 1 season across 2 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

This three-hour prequel to the 2002 miniseries, "Trudeau", chronicles the coming of age of Canada's 15th Prime Minister and the forces that shaped his brilliant mind and fierce political will. Fatherless at 14, a thorn in the side of his Jesuit professors, the young Pierre Elliott Trudeau chafed under the suffocating pressures of the very conservative Quebec of the '30s and '40s. Iconoclast, gadfly, a restless traveler and ladies' man, he helped plant the seeds for Quebec's Quiet Revolution by challenging all of its sacred cows—including the Catholic Church and the autocratic premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis.

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Key crew

• Guy FournierWriter
• Wayne GrigsbyWriter
• Tim SouthamDirector
• Jonathan GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Tobie PelletierPierre Elliott Trudeau (1938–1944)
• Karl PrunerFrank Scott
• Marcel SabourinMaurice Duplessis
• Patrick LabbéJean Marchand
• Denis BernardCharlie Trudeau
• Eric PetersonTommy Douglas
• Diana LeblancGrace Elliott Trudeau
• Marie-Christine LabelleAnne Hébert
• Gary LevertGerrard Pelletier
• Stéphane DemersPierre Elliott Trudeau (1949–1968)
• Michèle-Barbara PelletierHélène Desbiens
• Fanny La CroixDolorès Landry