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.
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Annette Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
Also in
Five of a Kind
Cécile Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
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Five of a Kind
Émilie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
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Five of a Kind
Marie Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
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Five of a Kind
Yvonne Dionne
Self (Archive Footage)
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Five of a Kind
Pierre Berton
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Love Circles
Folio
Donald Brittain Director
United States release November 19, 1978 · Produced in Canada · Production ONF | NFB
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CBC
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ONF | NFB
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Canada
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English
Release dates
United States · November 19, 1978
Theatrical
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