With Drums and Trumpets

With Drums and Trumpets
French	Avec tambours et trompettes
Directed by	Marcel Carrière
Produced by	Robert Forget
Cinematography	Alain Dostie Bernard Gosselin
Edited by	Werner Nold
Music by	Donald Douglas
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1967 (1967)
Running time	27:33 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French with English subtitles

With Drums and Trumpets (French: Avec tambours et trompettes) is a 1967 Canadian documentary film, directed by Marcel Carrière for the National Film Board of Canada.^[1]

The film depicts a group of men in Coaticook, Quebec who are performing the roles of the Papal Zouaves in a historical reenactment of the Capture of Rome during the Italian Risorgimento.^[2]

In 1867, Pope Pius IX called for volunteers to defend the Papacy against the troops of King Victor-Emmanuel, and Québec sent a contingent of 503 men to join the Papal Zouaves. Filmed at a centenary celebration of this event, the film is a humorous but sympathetic portrait of this elite group.^[3]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968.^[4]

References

1. "Marcel Carrière" in Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 9780802083982.
2. "Première du documentaire «Avec tambours et trompettes»". Bilan du siècle (Université de Sherbrooke).
3. "With Drums and Trumpets". mcintyre.ca. McIntyre Media. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
4. "A Place To Stand: Film of Year". The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1968.

External links

• Watch Avec tambours et trompettes on the NFB website
• With Drums and Trumpets at IMDb