Scandale (1982)
July 20, 1982Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Sophie Lorain
Lucille
Gilbert Comtois
Rousseau
Alpha Boucher
Roland
François Trottier
Claude
Nanette Workman
Nanette Workman
Jean-Guy Moreau
Poitras
Douglas Léopold
Coco
Rose Ouellette
Madame Jeanne Renoir
Jean-Pierre Alonzo
Les Frères Brosses
Robert Morissette
Les Frères Brosses
Robert Desroches
Ministre Gosselin
Marcel Giguère
Sergent Boudreau
Sylvie Boucher
Pauline
Robert Lantos
Producer
Liliane Clune
Jacynthe
Roger Garceau
Ministre Français
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This Movie Is About.
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Scandale is a 1982 Canadian (Québec) comedy film.
The plot is a reference to current events at the time of the film's creation. The response of a Parti Québécois government under René Lévesque to the recession of the early 1980s included harsh cutbacks to civil service pay which angered labour union members, a core part of the constituency of the PQ and sovereignty movement. In real life, the move would cost the party the next election.
In the film, a band of government workers affected by budget cutbacks at the Ministry of Culture decide to make some fast bucks by making a blue movie in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Their finished product is unexpectedly entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in order to showcase Québec's culture, shocking government officials.