''A Man and His Sin'' (french: Un homme et son péché) is a
Canadian
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drama film, directed by
Paul Gury
Paul Gury was the stage name of Loïc (Louis-Marie) Le Gouriadec (May 11, 1888 - November 13, 1974), a French-Canadian film and theatre actor, director and writer. He was most noted as the director of three significant films in the early Cinema o ...
and released in 1949.
[Charles-Henri Ramond]
"Un homme et son péché – Film de Paul Gury"
''Films du Québec'', August 6, 2012. Adapted from
's 1933 novel ''Un homme et son péché'', the film stars Hector Charland as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of
Sainte-Adèle
Sainte-Adèle () is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, and is part of the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality. It lies on Route 117 about north-west of Montreal. Its tourism-based economy centres on its skiing and hotel industry. Sain ...
,
Quebec
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,
Nicole Germain as Donalda Laloge, a village resident who was given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she is actually in love with her boyfriend Alexis Labranche (
Guy Provost
Guy Provost, (May 19, 1925 – February 10, 2004) was a French Canadian actor.
In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being a "giant of the performing arts, admired and respected for his sensitivity and discipline, eis also ...
), and
Ovila Légaré
Ovila Légaré (21 July 1901 - 19 February 1978) was a French-Canadian actor and singer from Quebec.
Life
Légaré was born in Montreal on 21 July 1901, and died there on 19 February 1978.
Career
He was a folklorist, singer, actor, script-writer ...
as the village priest
Antoine Labelle
François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle (November 24, 1833 – January 4, 1891) was a Roman Catholic priest and the person principally responsible for the settlement (or "colonization") of the Laurentians. He is also referred to as "Curé Labelle" an ...
.
However, the film did not replicate the plot of the original novel, in which Séraphin's miserliness led directly to Donalda's death; instead, it tells a story in which Séraphin loans Alexis $200 to buy a farm, but then uses his power to prevent Alexis from getting a job to repay him so that Alexis will remain indebted and under Séraphin's control.
[
The cast also included Henri Poitras, Suzanne Avon, Adjutor Bouré, Eugène Daigneault, Arthur Lefebvre, Armand Leguet, George Alexander, ]Juliette Béliveau
Juliette Béliveau (October 28, 1889 – August 26, 1975) was a French Canadian actress and singer, who starred in various radio and television comedies and dramas, as well as in theatre productions. She was also the heroine of a weekly comic ...
, Julien Lippé, Lucien Martin, Camille Ducharme, Paul Guèvremont, Georges Toupin and Conrad Gauthier.
A sequel film, '' Séraphin'', was released the following year with most of the same cast.
Production
The film had a budget of $137,000 ().
Response
Producer Paul L'Anglais
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received a special award "for making a definite advance in Canadian film history" at the 1st Canadian Film Awards in April 1949.[Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. ]Stoddart Publishing
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, 2000. . pp. 5-7. At the 2nd Canadian Film Awards the following year, Quebec Productions
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, the studio of L'Anglais and his business partner René Germain
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René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ...
, received a special citation "for sustained and creative effort in establishing a feature-length film industry in Canada", collectively based on the films ''A Man and His Sin'', ''Séraphin'', ''Whispering City
''Whispering City'' (also known as ''Crime City'') is a 1947 black-and-white film noir directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, and Helmut Dantine.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 23 ...
''/''La Forteresse
La Forteresse () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.
Geography
La Forteresse is located in the valley of Rival, and is about 550 meters away from Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs.
History
La Forteresse belonged until 19 ...
'' and '' The Village Priest (Le Curé du village)''.
Quebec film historian Pierre Véronneau later characterized ''A Man and His Sin'', ''The Village Priest'' and ''Séraphin'' as a group of films about "cowboy
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s in cassock
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s", which transplanted some of the heroic tropes of Western
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films onto priests in the church-dominated society of pre-Quiet Revolution
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Quebec.[George Melnyk, ''One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema''. ]University of Toronto Press
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, 2004. . p. 81.
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