1981, longer title 1981: Lannée ou je suis devenue un menteur (1981: The Year I Became a Liar) is a 2009 Canadian

Canada

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 French language

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 film from Quebec

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, a drama comedy written and directed by Ricardo Trogi

Ricardo Trogi

Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker, director and actor.-Career:Trogi’s first two films, Québec-Montréal, about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and Horloge Biologique, a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and...

. It was released on 4 September 2009. The film is autobiographical

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 about the youth years of the director as told by him during the film.

Synopsis

Ricardo (played by Jean-Carl Boucher), 11 years, arrives to a school where he feels completely foreign. With the aim of integrating, he befriends a group of youth named "K-Way rouges" (the K-Way Reds) composed of Jérôme (Gabriel Maillé

Gabriel Maillé

Gabriel Maillé is a Canadian film and television actor who started as a child actor.Maillé appeared in feature films C'est pas moi, je le jure! and 1981 before appearing in a lead role in Marécages....

), Marchand (Dany Bouchard) and Plante (Léo Caron) from the school and tries to woo and impress the beautiful Anne Tremblay (played by Élizabeth Adam). In the process he has to lie his way all through.

Cast

• Jean-Carl Boucher
  Jean-Carl Boucher
  Jean-Carl Boucher is a young Québécois actor, best known for his role as Diego Molina on the show Tactik shown on Télé-Québec. He has also starred in Un été sans point ni coup sûr and 1981...
  
   as Ricardo Trogi
• Sandrine Bisson as Claudette Trogi, Ricardo's mother
• Claudio Colangelo as Benito Trogi, Ricardo's father
• Gabriel Maillé
  Gabriel Maillé
  Gabriel Maillé is a Canadian film and television actor who started as a child actor.Maillé appeared in feature films C'est pas moi, je le jure! and 1981 before appearing in a lead role in Marécages....
  
   as Jérôme, the leader of the "K-Way rouges"
• Dany Bouchard as Marchand, member of the "K-Way rouges"
• Léo Caron as Plante, member of the "K-Way rouges"
• Marjolaine Lemieux as teacher Aline
• Élizabeth Adam as Anne Tremblay, the beautiful student Ricardo falls ion love with
• Lauriane Fortier as Anne Tremblay's friend
• Pierre-Xavier Martel as the Nazi
• Rose Adam as Nadia Trogi, Ricardo's sister
• Simone Chevalot as secretary at the school
• Pierre Mailloux
  Pierre Mailloux
  Pierre Mailloux , better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux, is a psychiatrist, who hosted a French-language talk show with Janine Ross on CKAC radio in Montreal from 1995 to 2007.-Background:...
  
   as Mr. Dagenais
• Jean-Robert Bourdage as Maître Schneider
• Mikahel Turcot-Beauchemin
• Ricardo Trogi
  Ricardo Trogi
  Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker, director and actor.-Career:Trogi’s first two films, Québec-Montréal, about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and Horloge Biologique, a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and...
  
  as story teller.