Roger Cardinal (director)

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Roger Cardinal (1940 - 2017) was a Canadian film director from Quebec. He was most noted for the 1988 film Malarek , for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989. [1]

His other credits included the films The Storm, Sex in the Snow (Après-ski), [2] The Apparition (L'Apparition), [3] Captive , Dead Silent, Risque and Brilliant , and episodes of the television series Urban Angel , Au nom du père et du fils and René Lévesque .

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References

  1. "List of nominees for the Genie Awards". Montreal Gazette , February 14, 1989.
  2. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Après ski – Film de Roger Cardinal". Films du Québec, January 18, 2009.
  3. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Apparition, L’ – Film de Roger Cardinal". Films du Québec, January 2, 2009.