The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan

The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (French: La neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan) is a Canadian dramatic docufiction film, directed by Arthur Lamothe and released in 1965.[1] The film stars Monique Miller as a woman who is torn between the love of her husband (Jean Doyon) and her desire to escape the dreariness and tedium of their isolated life in rural northern Quebec where he works as a maintenance engineer on the Daniel-Johnson Dam.[1]

The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan
FrenchLa neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan
Directed byArthur Lamothe
Written byArthur Lamothe
Produced byMarcel Martin
StarringMonique Miller
Jean Doyon
Margot Campbell
Gilles Vigneault
CinematographyGilles Gascon
Edited byArthur Lamothe
Music byGilles Vigneault
Production
company
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The cast also includes Margot Campbell and singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault in supporting roles. The film is historically most noted for "Mon Pays", Vigneault's most famous song and a classic of Quebec music, which was introduced as the film's theme song.[2]

The film premiered at the 1965 Montreal International Film Festival.[3]

References
  1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 201.
  2. Suzanne Thomas, Stephen C. Willis and Hélène Plouffe, "Mon Pays". The Canadian Encyclopedia, November 20, 2011.
  3. "Productions premiere at festival". Edmonton Journal, August 6, 1965.


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