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  1. The Merry World of Léopold Z (French: La vie heureuse de Léopold Z) is a 1965 comedy-drama directed by Gilles Carle that played a key role in efforts to create a popular national cinema in Quebec. The film follows the misadventures of its title character Léopold Z. (Guy L'Écuyer), a snow plow operator for the City of Montreal, on Christmas Eve.

  2. Mar 1, 2015 · La vie heureuse de Léopold Z (1965) In 1965 , the National Film Board commissioned a film from filmmaker Gilles Carle, which was to be a documentary film profile of a snowplow operator in Montréal. What the film would evolve to be is a feature-length film that blends the mediums of documentary and fiction to create a whimsical, and gorgeously ...

  3. The Merry World of Leopold Z: Directed by Gilles Carle. With Guy L'Ecuyer, Paul Hébert, Suzanne Valéry, Monique Joly. A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.

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    • Comedy
    • Gilles Carle
    • 1965-08
  4. The film follows the misadventures of its title character, a snow plow operator for the City of Montreal, on Christmas Eve. La vie heureuse de Léopold Z incorporates documentary film footage of snow clearing in Montreal, and in fact, had been originally commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as documentary on snow clearing, only to ...

  5. Mar 1, 2015 · He plays hooky from work on Christmas eve, managing to accomplish buying christmas presents for his wife and son, collecting his cousin from the station, and making it to Midnight Mass where his son is singing, all the while plowing the streets of his beloved Montréal. it’s a wholesome, quiet little story and not overly ambitious, at least ...

  6. On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Gilles Carle (The Death of a Lumberjack), The Merry World of Leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant conclusion.

  7. One Christmas Eve in Montreal during a major snowstorm, snowplow driver Leopold Z. Tremblay (Guy L’Écuyer) is busy clearing the streets after a heavy snowfall.

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