Tenderfoot (film)

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Tenderfoot
French Le Pied tendre
Directed byRoger Boire
Written byRoger Boire
Produced byViateur Castonguay
Roger Boire
StarringMassimo Agostinelli
Mario Bertrand
Andréa Davidson
CinematographySerge Ladouceur
Edited byFrançois Valcour
Music byJacques Blais
Bertrand Cormier
Michel Dupire
Production
companies
Les Films Tango
L'Oeil Fou
Release date
1988
Running time
14 minutes
CountryCanada

Tenderfoot (French : Le Pied tendre) is a Canadian short dramatic dance film, directed by Roger Boire and released in 1988. [1] The film stars Massimo Agostinelli as a window washer cleaning the windows at a dance school, who becomes fascinated by the dancers and begins to imagine himself participating in dance routines with them; eventually he is drawn in for real, when his bucket is stolen and he has to participate in a dance to recover it.

The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989. [2]

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References

  1. "LE PIED TENDRE". Cinémathèque québécoise .
  2. "Genie Award nominees 1989". Cinema Canada , February/march 1989.