Release Date
Original Release
November 19, 1978
1h 30m
The Dionne Quintuplets (1978)
Overview
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.
Director
Donald Brittain
Department: Directing
Cast
Annette Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Cécile Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Émilie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Marie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Yvonne Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Pierre Berton
Narrator
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