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Trudeau (TV Miniseries)

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Original title

Trudeau

Year

2002

Running time

208 min.

Country

Canada

Director

Jerry Ciccoritti

Screenwriter

Wayne Grigsby

Cast

Music

Sandy Moore

Cinematography

Norayr Kasper

Producer

Big Motion Pictures. Broadcast by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Genre

TV Series. Drama | TV Miniseries. Biography. Politics. 1960s

Synopsis

In 1968, Canada saw the election of a Prime Minister unlike any other in its history, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Handsome, witty, idealistic, flamboyant, courageous and debonair Trudeau rides on an unheard of crest of popularity nicknamed "Trudeaumania" that sweeps him into the highest political office in the country. At the same time, he develops a passionate romance with a young Margaret Sinclair that soon leads to marriage. However, events would put both Pierre's political and personal life under the gun as he must struggle with traumatic events like the terrorist crisis that grips Quebec in October 1970 which forces him to declare temporary martial law being but the first of the major challenges. At the same time, the demands of being a Prime Minister's wife takes its own toll on Margaret as her relationship with Pierre begins to disintergrate. Eventually, both pressures do their harm as the couple divorces and Pierre's political standing falls even as his Quebec Seperatist foes rise in power in Quebec and threaten to tear the country apart. With soul searching and difficult confrontations both in the political and private spheres, Pierre Trudeau faces the greatest challenges of his career. Those tasks of fighting to keep Quebec in Canada and then striving to bring home the Canadian Constitution complete with an entrenched Charter of Rights and Freedoms will leave an indelible mark on the nation even while he struggles to reconcile, however partially, with the woman he loved. Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.

Awards: 2002: 4 Gemini Awards: Including Best Director, Actor in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series (Colm Feore)

2002: Monte-Carlo TV Festival: Mini-Series - Best Performance by an Actor (Colm Feore)

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Trudeau (TV Miniseries)

2002

Jerry Ciccoritti