Original production:.Original production in French.

Director, Denys Arcand ; executive producer, André Belleau ; script, Andrée Thibault ; camera, Bernard Gosselin, Michel Brault, Jacques Leduc ; editing, Monique Fortier ; sound editing, Pierre Bernier ; music, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Donald Mackey.

Recorded 1965.

Today it is the city of Montréal, but three centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montréal of today.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).