TRUDEAU COLLECTION (MAVERICK IN THE MAKING, THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE MOVIE)

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• Genre: Action
• Plot: TRUDEAU; ; Trudeau explores fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and respected Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The drama opens in the late 1960s in the heady glow of Trudeaumania and closes with the high-stakes poker game leading to Canada’s Constitutional Agreement of 1982. It focuses on a man who came to power almost reluctantly an intellectual who had to learn to be a politician, paying a high personal and professional price for leading this country. Trudeau was a private man who lived a public life, a man who favoured reason over passion. Paradoxically, passion was the hallmark of his marriage, while his passionate commitment to individual rights as the cornerstone of democracy dominated his political agenda. This film explores his vision, which both inspired and frustrated Canadians.; ; TRUDEAU II MAVERICK IN THE MAKING; ; A drama chronicling the coming of age of Canada’s 15th Prime Minister and the forces that shaped his brilliant mind and fierce political will. Fatherless at 14, a thorn in the side of his Jesuit professors, the young Pierre Elliott Trudeau chafed under the suffocating pressures of the very conservative Quebec of the ‘30s and ‘40s. Iconoclast, gadfly, a restless traveler and lady’s man, he helped plant the seeds for Quebec’s Quiet Revolution by challenging all of its sacred cows — including the Catholic Church and the autocratic premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis.;
• Runtime: 6:12
• Media Format: Movie