Janine Sutto
Birthday: Born in 1921-04-20 in Paris, France
Deathday: 2017-03-28
TV Credits
Poivre et sel
Character: Marie-Rose Séguin
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Bye Bye
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Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the past year....
Viens voir les comédiens
Character: Self
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV....
Avec un grand A
Character: Élisabeth
L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995. The series explores different complex sexual and taboo issues. Some notable subjects include: Rape, Teen Obsession, Age Difference in love, Homosexuality and Married, Schizophrenia, Spousal Abuse. The series lasted 7 years and was very popular in Quebec. It was written by Janette Bertrand....
Movie Credits
The Valley of Tears
Character: Simone
Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and finds out who is the anonymous writer. This is how she establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker hired to paint the offices. A strange relation develops between these two persons who come from very different worlds...
The Capture
Character: Georgette
Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She’s managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted by her father’s violence....
Route 132
Character: Grand mère Carmelle
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption....
Huguette Oligny, le goût de vivre
Character: Self
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Pousse mais pousse égal
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Mission of Fear
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A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert....
Kamouraska
Character: Tante
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love....
Le père Chopin
Character: Carmen Dupont
A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s....
Here and Now
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A young Montreal woman has an affair with a famous French author, and the experience helps to teach her a number of things about life and love....
The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds
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While on his honeymoon, a man who suddenly becomes impotent, tries to recover his virility....
Master Cats
Character: Marraine Zénaïde
An example of 1970's Maple Syrup cinema from Quebec, this whimsical and sexy tale revolves around two trickster roommates and the women in their lives who want to see them settle down. The two insatiable male con artists seek to avoid marriage at all costs. The bachelors however seek a housekeeper. Who will they hire? A caricatured middle-aged faggot who will soon be affectionately called Môman. The heroes are understandably hesitant to have a faggot in the house, but it's better than a woman y...
Winter Games
Character: Mrs. Brown
Three ski instructors are busier in accumulating love than in giving lessons so they spend more time in bed than on the slopes....
Congorama
Character: Sister Lafrance
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legr...
Guide de la petite vengeance
Character: Cliente de la bijouterie
Bernard, an accountant in an upscale jewellery store, suffers from daily psychological abuse by his boss Vendôme. Thanks to his pal Robert, also victim of harassment by this cruel man, Bernard will toy with the consequence of a well-deserved retaliation at the expense of his boss. However, as not everything is perfect in this world, Bernard will also have to experience the sometimes less pleasant after effects of this ruthless act of revenge....
Two Women In Gold
Character: Madame Lalonde
Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically....
Le p'tit vient vite
Character: Simone Larivée
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Janine Sutto: 70 Years of Passion
Character: Self
For more than 70 years, actress Janine Sutto, the grande dame of Québec theatre, has brought to the stage her passion for her art: portraying life....