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Claude Jutra (French pronunciation: [klod ʒytʁa]; March 11, – November 5, ) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.

All All. Sign In. Claude Jutras. He finished his medical studies at the age of 22 to please his parents, but he was already developing an attraction to the visual arts and to cinema. As a teenager, he had made two shorts with Michel Brault. In , he wrote a television script.

THE DAME IN COLOR.

In the s, he became involved in the 'cinema direct' movement, once again back in Quebec. In , he directed My Uncle Antoine , nearly unanimously believed to be his best work, as well as one of the greatest works of the Canadian cinema. Beginning in the mids, Jutra worked mostly in Toronto, where funding was easier come by.

He began to suffer from a severe case of early-onset Alzheimer's and, given his knowledge of the condition due to his medical training, chose to take his own life. Just as the character he created in Take It All , Jutra drowned himself in the freezing waters of the St. Lawrence River. His body was not recovered until the following spring. Parents Albert Jutras.

Rachel Gauvreau.