The Snowshoers
Les raquetteurs
Watch the snowshoers soap2day. This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Canada
- Director: Michel Brault
- Cast: Maurice Richard,