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Belizaire the Cajun

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Belizaire the Cajun
Poster by Matthias Claus
Directed byGlen Pitre
Written byGlen Pitre
StarringArmand Assante
Release date
  • June 13, 1986 (1986-06-13)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,142,243[1]

Belizaire the Cajun is a 1986 film directed by Glen Pitre and starring Armand Assante. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3][4]

It chronicles the story[vague] of Belizaire Breaux, a village healer (traiteur) in Acadiana in 1859, who becomes entangled in a violent conflict between Cajuns and the new Anglophone arrivals to Southwest Louisiana.

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References

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  1. ^ "Belizaire the Cajun".
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Belizaire the Cajun". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  3. ^ Attanasio, Paul (November 21, 1986). "'Belizaire the Cajun'". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
  4. ^ Ebert, Roger (July 18, 1986). "Belizaire The Cajun movie review (1986)". rogerebert.com. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
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