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- Born:
- March 11, 1930, Montreal, Can.
- Died:
- November 1986, Montreal (aged 56)
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Claude Jutra
Canadian film director
Claude Jutra (born March 11, 1930, Montreal, Can.—died November 1986, Montreal) was a Canadian film director. He worked as a television writer before joining the National Film Board in 1954. After making a feature-length documentary, he directed the acclaimed Take It All (1964, Canadian Film Award). His next film, Mon oncle Antoine (1971, Canadian Film Award), was considered his masterpiece. His later films were less successful. Following his diagnosis with Alzheimer disease, he drowned himself in the St. Lawrence River.
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