''L'Affaire Dumont'' is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. Written by Danielle Dansereau based on a true story and directed by
Daniel "Podz" Grou, the film stars
Marc-André Grondin
Marc-André Grondin (born March 11, 1984) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as Xavier Laflamme in the 2011 ice hockey film '' Goon''. He also played Zachary Beaulieu in Jean-Marc Vallée's film '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), for which he won a Ju ...
as Michel Dumont, a divorced young father of two who is accused of a
sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act of sexual abuse in which one intentionally Physical intimacy, sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or Coercion, coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their w ...
he did not commit.
[Brendan Kelly, "'It's my version of a horror film'; L'Affaire Dumont tells the 'mind-boggling' but true story of a Montreal man wrongly convicted of rape". '']Montreal Gazette
''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It is the only English-language daily newspape ...
'', September 10, 2012.
The film's cast also includes
Geneviève Brouillette,
Patrick Hivon,
Marilyn Castonguay,
Emmanuel Schwartz,
Guy Thauvette
Guy Thauvette (born March 19, 1944) is a Canadian actor from Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film '' Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)'', for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Supporting ...
and
Cynthia Wu-Maheux.
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2012 films
Canadian drama films
Films directed by Daniel Grou
2012 drama films
Films about pedophilia
Canadian films based on actual events
French-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
2010s French-language films