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the examiner Saturday Apriijfi 1979 World premiere of Riel earns audience praise OTTAWA OP Riel threehour documentary drama telling the story of western Can adas rebel in terms of the people he led and fought had its world film premiere at Gov ernment House Wednesday night and the invited crowd hailed its creators and stars To be shown in two 9tHninute segments on the CBCTV Eng lish and French networks Sun day and Tuesday Riel seems bound to bring instant stardom in English Canada to two lead ing actors from Quebec Ray mond loutier as Louis Riel and Roger Blay as his chief lieutenant Gabriel lumoiit Christopher Plummer plays Sir John Macdonald the prime minister at the time of Riels resistance to Ottawas western ambitions More than 50 other Canadian actors have Margaret needed fantasy By Iiltltli ll3lIII The aiiadian Iress Pierre Trudeaus family mot to is Ia raison ayant Ia pas sion reason before passion but somehow Margaret Trudeau got it tw isted The prime ministers estranged wife iii her book Reyond Reason tells how It all happened Its cllritteii work Hlll humor anger outrageous con tentions the story as she sees it of what happened when 12 yearold flower child became the bride of swinging bachelor politician two years older than her mot her They both tried to make it work but at times they both cracked Those who skip through the 256 pages of text and pages of photographs in search of the scandalous bits will find them that weekend in Toronto with the Rolling Stones rock group the time she made fool of herself hen she sang her song of praise to the mic ot the president of encuela What the scanners miss however it the absorbing pro gressing story of the pampered daughter of Vest ost politi ctan product of her genera tion who went through the university unrest ot the woos and followed the sun and the drugs scene through North Africa and made the incredible transformation to become chatelaine ot the prime ministers residence in ttaw IIIIIZRS IIIIt MlZ IIIIIRS She became mother as the country cheered and ran away With its jeers ringing in her ears At one point she states Things never happen tome in moderation at another To feel hatred and be criticized by strangers is frightening sen sation Possibly she comes closest to seltrealization hen she says late in the book have to have fantasy in my life cant Iongsurvivc without one leading roles in the drama which took two years to make and employed 1000 extras in crowd and battle scenes Riel who had trained for the priesthood and said he was driven by Gods command led the Red River Rebellion of 1869 70 and the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 was convicted of trea son and was hanged in Regina later that year TALE ONTRUVERSLU It is sympathetic telling of one of the countrys most con troveisial and in many ways least appreciated or understood pages of history Rlay as Dumont is the real storyteller recalling his years with Riel Ioiig after the hanging when Dumont was star in Buffalo Bills Wild West on gress of Roughriders In the Riel saga Dumont sharpshtmter showed native generalship which twice out shone the British command of the government troops As portrayed by tIoutier Riel was dedicated leader of his Indian halfrbrecd Metis and early Prairie settlers trying to keep hold on the land they had tamed against the official eiicroaciiinents of the new central government Wit peppers the script by Roy Moore produced by John Trent and directed by ieorge Bloomfield with the image of big government bearing down on innocent people The film il lustrates eastern anadas view that Riel was only leading stupid savages APPEARANCES ll1lfill Yet Riel was wellAeducated dedicated to his church and his people and had keen appie ciation of political power Whether he was indeed mad as his critics of that day said or only feigning madness is not settled in the drama But cer tainly he was driven by circum stances and his ardor to mo meiits of madness ondensmg the story of Riels resistance and rebel years from 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