Scandale (1982)
July 20, 1982Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Sophie Lorain
Lucille
Gilbert Comtois
Rousseau
Alpha Boucher
Roland
Nanette Workman
Nanette Workman
François Trottier
Claude
Jean-Guy Moreau
Poitras
George Mihalka
Director
Douglas Léopold
Coco
Robert Geoffrion
Writer
Rose Ouellette
Madame Jeanne Renoir
Robert Lantos
Producer
Stephen J. Roth
Producer
Jean-Pierre Alonzo
Les Frères Brosses
Tony Roman
Composer
Robert Morissette
Les Frères Brosses
François Protat
Cinematographer
Media.
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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.