Les Filles de Caleb

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Les Filles de Caleb
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Created by Jean Beaudin
Written by Arlette Cousture
Directed byJean Beaudin
Starring Marina Orsini
Roy Dupuis
Germain Houde
Véronique Le Flaguais
Pierre Curzi
Theme music composer Richard Grégoire
Country of originCanada
Original languageFrench
No. of episodes20
Production
EditorPierre Thériault
Running time1 hour
Original release
Network Radio-Canada
Release1990 (1990) 
1991 (1991)

Les Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, [1] [2] broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada [3] and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2. [4] [5] An English-language version was also produced and broadcast in English Canada on CBC Television under the name Emilie. For its broadcast in France, the title of Émilie, la passion d'une vie was used.

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Plot

The series is set in the rural Mauricie region in the Province of Quebec at the end of the 19th century and through the beginning of the 20th century. Émilie, daughter of Caleb Bordeleau, decides to pursue her education. She faces great opposition from her small-minded entourage, but succeeds at becoming a school teacher. She falls in love with one of her students, the adventurer Ovila Pronovost, and is torn between her vocation and her love for him. The Bordeleau and Pronovost families worry about the alliance of these two lovers of such difficult to reconcile passions. After their marriage, they remain in the town of St-Tite and had many children. Ovila, restless and always attracted by wide open spaces, leaves the family to go up North to the Abitibi region, recently opened to colonisation, for opportunities to hunt and lumberjack. Émilie chooses to stay and bring up their family on her own. After the death of one of Ovila's brothers, they moved to Shawinigan.

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