Dieppe (film)

1993 Canadian miniseries

Dieppe

Written by| John Krizanc
Directed by| John N. Smith
Starring| Victor Garber
John Neville
Kenneth Welsh
Robert Joy
Peter Donat
Country of origin| Canada
Production
Producer| Bernard Zukerman
Running time| 180 minutes
Original release
Network| CBC
Release| 1993 (1993) –
1994 (1994)

Dieppe is a two-part Canadian television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 1993. It was based on the book Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid by Brian Loring Villa.

## Plot

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The series chronicled the events that led up to the infamous World War II Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942, which resulted in 3,367 Canadian soldiers either being captured, wounded or killed.

## Cast

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* Victor Garber as Lord Louis Mountbatten
* John Neville as Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
* Kenneth Welsh as Maj. Gen. Harry Crerar
* Robert Joy as John Hughes-Hallett
* Peter Donat as Andrew McNaughton
* Marc Strange as Dwight D. Eisenhower
* W.B. Brydon as Winston Churchill
* Graham Harley as Bernard Law Montgomery
* Benedict Campbell as Trafford Leigh-Mallory
* Gary Reineke as John Hamilton Roberts
* John Mezon as Noël Coward
* Gabrielle Rose as Anne
* Larissa Laskin as Leith
* Michael Anderson Jr. as David Lean
* Gordon Currie as Stefan
* Ian Deakin as Cock-Martin
* Aidan Devine as Casey
* Tony Munch as Mess Soldier
* Nigel Bennett as Baillie-Grohman

## Production

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It was criticized for not being completely accurate, and overdramatizing the events that took place.[1]

## Awards

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Dieppe was nominated for 11 Gemini Awards, winning two including Best Mini-Series.

## Home media

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The series was released on DVD by the CBC in 2002 just before the 60th anniversary of the Dieppe raid. The DVD included behind-the-scenes footage and various interviews and news stories that aired about the show in 1993 and 1994. Also included was a 1962 interview with both Lord Louis Mountbatten and John Hamilton Roberts, in which they discuss the key events of the raid, and the decisions they made surrounding this event.[2]

## References

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1. ^ 'Dieppe,' the miniseries
2. ^ DVD: Dieppe (1993)

## External links

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* Dieppe at IMDb

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Films directed by John N. Smith

* Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
* Revolution's Orphans (1979)
* First Winter (1981)
* The Masculine Mystique (1984)
* Sitting in Limbo (1986)
* Train of Dreams (1987)
* Welcome to Canada (1989)
* The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
* Dieppe (1993)
* Dangerous Minds (1995)
* A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
* Random Passage (2002)
* Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
* Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (2006)
* The Englishman's Boy (2008)
* Love and Savagery (2009)

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