Les Brûlés

Les brûlés
Also known as The Promised Land
Genre historical drama
Written by Bernard Devlin
Directed by Bernard Devlin
Composer(s) Félix Leclerc
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 8 (French version)
4 (English version)
Production
Producer(s) Victor Jobin
Léonard Forest
Guy Glover
Editor(s) Raymond Le Boursier
David Mayerovitch
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) National Film Board of Canada
Release
Original network Radio-Canada
CBC Television
Original release 15 November 1957

Les Brûlés ((English) The Promised Land) is a Canadian historical drama television miniseries by the National Film Board of Canada. It was first broadcast in 1957 on Radio-Canada, then dubbed into English and adapted for broadcast by CBC Television as a four-part series in 1962.

Premise

Les brûlés was adapted from the Hervé Biron novel Nuages sur les brûlés concerning the 1930s settlement of Quebec's Abitibi district and the workers who toiled to develop the area during the Great Depression.[1] Episodes included music and appearances by folk musician Félix Leclerc. It was broadcast on Radio-Canada as an eight-part series for the network's Panoramique anthology.[2]

The $144,000 production was also released as a 114-minute feature film in 1959 as a condensed version of the television footage.[3][4]

Scheduling

Les brûlés was first broadcast on Radio-Canada on Fridays at 9 p.m. starting 15 November 1957. The Promised Land adaptation was broadcast as half-hour episodes Sundays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 16 September to 7 October 1962 on CBC Television.

References

  1. "(photo)". The Gazette (Montreal). 15 September 1962. p. 10. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  2. "Today's TV previews". The Gazette (Montreal). 15 November 1957. p. 13. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. "Les brûlés" (in French). Télé-Québec. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  4. Dorland, Michael (1998). So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy. University of Toronto Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8020-8043-1. Retrieved 26 April 2012.

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