Genre: Drama
Original Title: Désobéir: Le choix de Chantale Daigle
Year: 2023
Duration: 6 x 60′
Original Version: French
Subtitled in: English
Disobey
This 6 x 1hr miniseries tells the true story of Daigle vs Tremblay, a legal saga that unleashed a media and political firestorm in Canada in 1989.
The story of the famous trial in 1989 of Chantale Daigle vs Jean-Guy Tremblay. Pregnant when they broke up, Chantale decides to have an abortion. Jean-Guy, his pride injured, wants to stop her and takes her to court. Swept up in a media and political whirlwind, Chantale finds her life turned upside down forever. Will she find the strength to stand by her choice all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada?
Original idea: Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
Scriptwriters: Daniel Thibault et Isabelle Pelletier
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault
Producers: Sophie Lorain, Alexis Durand-Brault for ALSO
Lead Cast: Éléonore Loiselle, Antoine Pilon, Denis Trudel, Rachel Graton