Director, Manon Barbeau ; producer, Éric Michel ; director of photography, Philippe Lavalette ; location sound, François Guérin ; editor, France Pilon ; sound editor, Marie-Claude Gagné ; archival researcher, Françoise de La Cressonnière, Louise Leroux ; voice recording, Michel Chalut ; mixer, Jean Paul Vialard ; original music, Robert M. Lepage ; foley, Emmanuel Dupire ; music recording, Nathalie Morin, Geoffrey Mitchell ; camera, Jean-Pierre St-Louis, Stefan Nitoslawski ; location sound, Denis Le Paven, Gilles Corbeil, André Dussault.

Narration, Manon Barbeau ; text reading, Manon Barbeau, Guy Nadon.

Recorded 1998.

In 1948, Paul-Émile Borduas' Refus global manifesto proclaimed the end of the "reign of fear" embodied by the Duplessis regime. Fifty years later, all the history books mention this document which laid the foundations of modern Quebec. Daughter of one of the signatories, filmmaker Manon Barbeau takes a fresh look at this period. She went to meet the sons and daughters of Barbeau, Borduas, Mousseau and Riopelle, "children of Refus global" who, like her, suffered the consequences of their parents' revolutionary gesture. None of them emerged unscathed from a childhood made up of worries and abandonment, but also of a richness that only art can bring. Especially when it appears to us, as it does here, in the light of emotion.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Award - Category: Best Arts documentary, 1999 Special Jury Award, 1998 Honorable Mention from the Jury awarding by the Prix des bibliothèques, 1999

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