''IXE-13'' is a Canadian spy comedy film, directed by
Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (''touche-à-tout''), Godbout has become one of the most important wri ...
and released in 1971.
Gerald Pratley
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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 110.
Made in conjunction with the sketch comedy troupe Les Cyniques, the film stars André Dubois as Jean "IXE-13" Thibault, the "Ace of Canadian Spies", who sets off to save his fiancée Gisèle after she is kidnapped while IXE-13 is on a mission.
[Charles-Henri Ramond]
"IXE-13 – Film de Jacques Godbout"
''Films du Québec'', February 17, 2009. Louise Forestier
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Biography
Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, Forestier was trained in acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, but it was as a ...
also stars in a dual role as both Gisèle and Taya, the "Queen of the Chinese Communists" who undergoes plastic surgery to look like Gisèle as part of her plot to get close enough to IXE-13 to kill him.
[ Its cast also includes Serge Grenier, Marc Laurendeau, Marcel Saint-Germain, Louisette Dussault, ]Carole Laure
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Career
Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she ...
and Luce Guilbeault
Luce Guilbeault (5 March 1935 – 12 July 1991) was a Canadian actress and director from Quebec. She was one of the leading figures of Quebec repertory theatre of the 1960s and one of the most-sought actresses of Quebec cinema in the 1970s. She ...
.
The film was based on Paul Daignault's ''Les Aventures étranges de l'Agent IXE-13'' series of pulp
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spy stories.
The film premiered theatrically in late 1971, before opening commercially in January 1972."IXE-13, un immense succès d’édition et un film culte"
Ici Radio-Canada Première
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, May 1, 2019.
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1971 films
1971 comedy films
Canadian comedy films
Canadian spy films
National Film Board of Canada films
Films directed by Jacques Godbout
1970s spy comedy films
1970s French-language films
French-language Canadian films
1970s Canadian films
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