Back in 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 8.7/10 | |
Released: | November 19, 1978 | |
Runtime: | 87 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Cast: | Pierre Berton Cecile Dionne Annette Dionne Elzire Dionne | |
Crew: | Donald Brittain Pierre Berton Barbara Sears | |
mkmikas : im guessing he was the one from the radio