''The Caretaker's Lodge'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997.
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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 47. The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin ( Jacques Godin).
The cast also includes
Macha Grenon
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Michel Forget
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Forget had a long acting career in which he participated in several films and television series which were popular among French Canadians.
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, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard,
Maka Kotto
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Isabel Richer
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,
David La Haye
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Guy Provost
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Claude Léveillée
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and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles.
The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac.
The film premiered at the 1997
Montreal World Film Festival
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18th Genie Awards
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in 1998.Doug Saunders, "Egoyan film leads Genie race: The Sweet Hereafter picks up nominations for Canada's film awards". ''
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