The Champagne Safari

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The Champagne Safari
Directed by	George Ungar
Written by	Harold Crooks John Kramer Steve Lucas
Produced by	George Ungar John Walker
Cinematography	Joan Hutton Douglas Kiefer Mathieu Roberts Kirk Tougas John Walker Floyd Crosby
Edited by	John Kramer
Music by	Normand Roger
Production company	National Film Board
Release date	1995 (1995) (TIFF)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

The Champagne Safari is a 1995 Canadian documentary film directed by George Ungar.^[1] A portrait of industrialist Charles Bedaux, it focuses primarily on his controversial Bedaux expedition through northern Alberta and British Columbia in 1934, including Floyd Crosby's original footage of the expedition that had long been believed lost until being found in Paris in the 1980s.^[1]

The film was narrated by Colm Feore and Jim Morris, and included David Hemblen as the voice of Bedaux.

The film was in development by 1988, originally under the working title Dangerous Alliances: The Bedaux Story.^[2] It premiered in the Perspective Canada program at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival,^[3] and was broadcast on TVOntario's documentary series The View from Here in December 1995.^[4]

The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 16th Genie Awards.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "True-life adventure a sizzling find". Toronto Star, September 1, 1995.
^ "On the trail of Canadian West's champagne safari; Moviemaking sleuth unearths film of Bedaux's expedition". Montreal Gazette, October 9, 1988.
^ "A Rude awakening". Hamilton Spectator, July 27, 1995.
^ "Hitler's Brits: A Canadian documentary, The Champagne Safari, reveals a little-known link between the Nazis and wealthy Britons". The Globe and Mail, December 2, 1995.
^ "Three Genies for Le Confessionnal: Margaret's Museum wins six". Calgary Herald, January 15, 1996.

External links

The Champagne Safari at IMDb
The Champagne Safari at National Film Board of Canada catalog

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
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