St Urbain Street and Beyond Mordecai Richler 's Montrael
' I was born in Montreal, but couldn't get out quickly enough. At the age of 19 I quit college and lit out for Europe.'
In 20 years of self-imposed exile MORDECAI RICHLER wrote about Jewish Montreal - St Urbain's Horsemen, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Joshua Now and Then. Ten years ago he returned to a changed city: the Jew. ish families of St Urbain Street had resettled in more comfortable suburbs, supplanted by Greeks, Portuguese and Poles; and tension has increased between French and English-speaking Quebecers. Richler believes the struggle is unlikely to boil over, since both communities expend more emotional energies on their common support for ' the greatest hockey team in the League ', the Montreal Canadiens, than they do on their political differences.
Film cameraman bill MATTHEWS Sound recordist JOHN PRITCHARD Film editor KATE RIVERS
Production assistant JANITA KOLODZIEJ Producer DAVID WALLACE