La légende de la cloche (The Legend of the Bell)

BROADCAST DATE

Winter 2015

FORMAT

Short Documentary -
30 Minutes

SYNOPSIS

In May of 1885, the Northwest Rebellion, led by Louis Riel and the Métis, was defeated in the famed Battle of Batoche. At the end of the bloody three-day showdown, their wounds were deepened when Ontario soldiers made off with the town’s prized church bell, “Marie-Antoinette” as a spoil of war.

For the next 106 years, Marie-Antoinette was kept and displayed in Millbrook, Ontario as the town’s war trophy. In October of 1991, a group of gregarious Manitoba Métis paid a visit to the Legion where the bell was being held. One month later she disappeared. Marie-Antoinette’s keeper and whereabouts have remained a mystery for 22 years until 2015 when she would be returned to her rightful owners, the Métis people. But new questions about the Bell's true origins are casting a strange shadow on one of the Métis people's most cherished symbols...

KEY CREATIVES

Written by Annick Marion, Janelle Wookey, Jérémie Wookey
Directed by Jérémie Wookey, Jérémie Wookey

BROADCASTER

Radio-Canada, Ouest

LOCATION

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Batoche, Saskatchewan