90m •
1978
In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.
CBC • CA
ONF | NFB • CA
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
2023•
5.9
2017•
0
2016•
6.0
1922•
7.1
1972•
0
1985•
8.7
2004•
0
2023•
8.0
1994•
6.7
2019•
6.0
