AN AMERICAN, PORTRAIT OF RAYMOND LUC LEVASSEUR by Pierre Marier
All Films • 1h 38m
99 min, Documentairy, Quebec, Canada, 2015
Screenplay and Direction : Pierre Marier
Direction of Photography : Thomas Szacka-Marier
Editing : Martine Cossette
Sound Recording : Pierre Marier
Sound Design : Catherine Van Der Donckt
Sound Mixing : Catherine Van Der Donckt
Music : Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld
Distribution : Les Films du 3 mars
Production : Pierre Marier (Les films du tricycle)
Put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1977 for his involvement in bombings by the radical Marxist group United Freedom Front, Vietnam veteran Raymond Luc Levasseur was arrested in 1984, charged with bombings and bank robery and sentenced to 45 years in prison. From his cell in 1992, Levasseur wrote a personal essay, My Blood is Québécois, in which he traced his rebellion and radicalization to growing up as a Franco-American “frog” in a small town in Maine, the descendant of Quebec immigrants who’d come south to work as mill workers. Released on parole in 2004, Levasseur returned to live in Maine; today he looks back on his life.
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