Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986)
29m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986)
29m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. Taken from his home at the age of 4 due to family problems, he spent the rest of his 17 short years moving in and out of 28 foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta. A sensitive, articulate young man, Richard Cardinal left behind a diary upon which this film is based.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Cory Swan
Richard as a Young Boy
Pauline Kerik
Social Worker
Betty Smith
Foster Mother
Andrée Lachapelle
Production Coordinator
Leslie Miller
Foster Father
Jackie Newell
Sound Editor
Alanis Obomsawin
Director
Christian Fortin
Music Sound Design and Processing
Hans Peter Strobl
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Marrin Canell
Producer
Michel Bissonnette
Assistant Camera
Robert Verrall
Producer
Andy Thomson
Executive Producer
Dario Dominques
Composer
Rita Roy
Editor
Roger Rochat
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1986
StatusReleased
Running Time29m
Filming LocationsAlberta, Canada
Genres
Wiki.
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child is a 1986 National Film Board of Canada documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, about the suicide of Métis youth Richard Stanley Cardinal, who killed himself in 1984 at the age of 17. Cardinal, who had been placed in 28 different homes during his 14 years in Alberta's child welfare system, hanged himself from a cross bar he had nailed between two trees near his last foster home, northwest of Edmonton.