The Dionne Quintuplets (movie)
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Donald Brittain
- Production companies: CBC, ONF | NFB
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 11/19/1978
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
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.
