Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making

Overview

This three-hour prequel to the 2002 miniseries, "Trudeau", chronicles the coming of age of Canada's 15th Prime Minister and the forces that shaped his brilliant mind and fierce political will. Fatherless at 14, a thorn in the side of his Jesuit professors, the young Pierre Elliott Trudeau chafed under the suffocating pressures of the very conservative Quebec of the '30s and '40s. Iconoclast, gadfly, a restless traveler and ladies' man, he helped plant the seeds for Quebec's Quiet Revolution by challenging all of its sacred cows—including the Catholic Church and the autocratic premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis.

Top cast

Tobie Pelletier

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1938–1944)

Karl Pruner

Frank Scott

Marcel Sabourin

Maurice Duplessis

Patrick Labbé

Jean Marchand

Denis Bernard

Charlie Trudeau

Eric Peterson

Tommy Douglas

Diana Leblanc

Grace Elliott Trudeau

Marie-Christine Labelle

Anne Hébert

Gary Levert

Gerrard Pelletier

Stéphane Demers

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1949–1968)

Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

Hélène Desbiens

Fanny La Croix

Dolorès Landry

David Alexander Miller

Reporter

Seasons

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