A Survivor's Tale
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
Cast: Salomé Dewaels, Louis Peres, Candice Bouchet
A Survivor's Tale
The fate of a woman forgotten by history
1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Micha Wald
- Producers
- Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman, Eurydice Gysel
