Oh, Canada

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Schrader adapts the novel by Russell Banks telling the story of famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife—one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologise his mythologised life.

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