Watch The Dionne Quintuplets Online

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The Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 19/11/1978
  • Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Director: Donald Brittain
  • Production: CBC, ONF | NFB
  • Country: Canada

Overview:

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.

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