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Oh, Canada (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, political drama
Plot:
miscarriage, deserter, conscription, life is a bitch, infidelity, vietnam war, death, cancer, memory, old age, filmmaker, guilt, abandonment, regret, life, womanizer, death of protagonist, cowardice, aspiring writer, u.s. canadian border, celebrity interview, hand job, male nudity, bare chested male, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 1960s
Place:
canada, richmond virginia, montreal, north america, montreal quebec canada
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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