February 15, 1839
| February 15, 1839 | |
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| French | 15 février 1839 |
| Directed by | Pierre Falardeau |
| Written by | Pierre Falardeau |
| Produced by | René Chénier Marc Daigle Bernadette Payeur |
| Starring | Luc Picard Sylvie Drapeau Frédéric Gilles Julien Poulin Denis Trudel |
| Cinematography | Alain Dostie |
| Edited by | Claude Palardy |
| Music by | Jean St-Jacques |
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| Distributed by | Christal Films |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $248,093 |
February 15, 1839 (French: 15 février 1839) is a 2001 Quebec historical drama film. Directed by Pierre Falardeau, it is about the incarceration at the Pied-du-Courant Prison and the execution by hanging there of Patriote participants of the Lower Canada Rebellion. Those rebels sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.
It features as characters the historical figures François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, his wife Henriette and Charles Hindelang.