The Torrent

Overview

It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.

Cast

Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon

François

Laurence Leboeuf

Amica / Claudine

Dominique Quesnel

Dominique

Anthony Therrien

François

N/A

Marco Bacon

Peddler

N/A

Roger Blay

Clochard

Normand Canac-Marquis

Headmaster

Aubert Pallascio

Vieil instituteur

Martin Desgagné

Jeune instituteur

N/A

Alain Gabriel

Surveillant

David Noël

Jeune homme du dortoir

N/A

Mario Genest

Maquignon