Mon oncle Antoine

Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a 1971 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada.

For the 1958 French film, see Mon Oncle.
Mon oncle Antoine
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClaude Jutra
Written byClément Perron
Produced byMarc Beaudet
StarringJacques Gagnon
Jean Duceppe
Olivette Thibault
Lionel Villeneuve
Claude Jutra
CinematographyMichel Brault
Edited byClaire Boyer
Claude Jutra
Music byJean Cousineau
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release dates
  • July 1971 (1971-07) (Moscow)
  • 12 November 1971 (1971-11-12) (Canada)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench
Box office$750,000

The film depicts life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos Region of rural Québec before the Asbestos Strike of 1949. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of 15-year-old boy Benoît (Jacques Gagnon) who is coming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event in the years before the Quiet Revolution (c. 1959–1970).

The film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.

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