María Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine grows up on a farm in rural Quebec at the beginning of the twentieth century. Life there is extraordinarily hard. The winters are cold and harsh, and survival depends on everyone's ability to work nonstop from sunup to sundown every single day.

Directed by Gilles Carle. With Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Claude Rich, Amulette Garneau. A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who ...