This image shows Québec City mayor Gilles Lamontagne and his wife Mary Schaefer during the filming of Don’t Drink the Water, which was inspired by a play by Woody Allen. With its European ambiance and rich past, Québec City is an original and inexpensive location for North American film shoots.

1952 - 1980

Québec City, filming grounds for the big and small screens

Québec City has been the setting for some of the world’s greatest films. In 1952, the famous Alfred Hitchcock shot all the outdoor scenes of his film I Confess in Québec City, notably in Limoilou. Then, between 1953 and 1959, author Roger Lemelin portrayed a family from the Saint-Sauveur district in one of Quebec’s first TV series, La Famille Plouffe, on which two movies by Quebec artist Gilles Carle were based. A movie inspired by a Woody Allen play called Don’t Drink the Water also used Old Québec as a backdrop in 1969. Do these films bring back any memories?

Architectural heritage as a backdrop

Auteur inconnu This image shows Québec City mayor Gilles Lamontagne and his wife Mary Schaefer during the filming of Don’t Drink the Water, which was inspired by a play by Woody Allen. With its European ambiance and rich past, Québec City is an original and inexpensive location for North American film shoots.

Chronoscope Can you identify the location of the Lamontagne couple? (unilingual French for a limited time)

Depicted period: 1969

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