Jésus de Montréal [videorecording] = Jesus of Montreal / [presented by] Max Films Productions, Gérard Mital Productions en association avec L'Office National du Film du Canada ; producteurs, Roger Frappier et Pierre Gendron ; scénario et réalisation, Denys Arcand.
Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier, Yves Jacques. Originally produced as a Canadian/French motion picture in 1989. Special features: theatrical trailer (3 min.); cast biographies text.
Summary:
A Montreal shrine seeks to inspire its congregants by modernizing its staging of the Passion play. A promising cast of vibrant young actors are signed on-- one fresh from perfume commercials, another from the pornographic film industry, and another who had an affair with the basilica's priest-- quickly drive the production on to become a smash hit. But as the play enjoys the success, the actors become more and more challenged to separate their real lives from their lives onstage--Container.
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