Prologue
– Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Ve..
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. Set and filmed during the sixties, this fiction feature tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help from his female friend and a draft dodger from the United States. Two rival philosophies of dissenting youth become evident in the choices they make: militant protest vs. communal retreat. The film includes some seminal archival footage of a speech by legendary anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman and bloody rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
29 Jan 1970
English
In the summer of 1968, Jesse, a law school dropout turned political activist, publishes and distributes an independent underground newspaper in Montreal. His girlfriend Karen is also an activist and works as a nightclub waitress. When Jesse is beaten up on the street for selling his papers, Karen becomes disillusioned with their beliefs and longs for peace. When David, a draft dodger from the United States, comes to live with them, Karen is intrigued by his passive, apolitical, drug-using philosophy. When the law proves useless in bringing to justice Jesse's attackers, he decides to travel to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Rather than join him, Karen travels north with David to a pacifist communal farm in the Canadian woods. Karen must come to terms with what she really wants as Jesse is witness to the bloody and violent confrontation between riot police and protesters at the convention.
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