TORONTO - "Passchendaele," the First World War epic from Canadian actor and filmmaker Paul Gross, is opening this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, starring Gross and Caroline Dhavernas, will have its world premiere at the festival when it opens on Sept. 4. "Passchendaele" was inspired by the story of Gross's grandfather, an Alberta veteran of the First World War. Gross wrote and directed the film.
Piers Handling, the director of the film festival, called the film "personal and passionate" and significant to both Canadian film and Canadian history.
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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