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The Mills of Power I 1988 1h 56m Drama List Reviews At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants from Québec travel to the Eastern United States to work for French...
The Mills of Power 1. At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants from Quebec travel to the Eastern United States to work for French industrialists in this historical drama. While the Federal Government in Ottawa is subsidizing Germans, Poles and Ukranians to come and settle in the Canadian prairies, starving Quebec farmers and ...
- Claude Fournier
- Gratien Gélinas
Online. Apple TV. Cast members. Claude Fournier Director. Aurélien Recoing Cast. Gabrielle Lazure Cast. Pierre Chagnon Cast. Videos & trailers. An elderly Quebecer tells a reporter about his life in the United States in the shadow of a textile factory owned by a French family.
A historical drama, the film centres on the historical phenomenon of French Canadians who emigrated to New England for work opportunities, tracing their gradual loss of socioeconomic status, political power and cultural identity through the story of a community of French Canadian Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. [2]
Featured review. Historical drama about the Quebecois exodus to the New Engalnd textile mills. As told through flashback, this is the story of of a poor farming family that leaves Quebec at the turn of the century to work in the mills of power. Once there they discover Dickensian working conditions that force many to struggle against the mill's ...
At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants from Québec travel to the Eastern United States to work for French industrialists.
