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With Drums and Trumpets (French: Avec tambours et trompettes) is a 1967 Canadian documentary film, directed by Marcel Carrière for the National Film Board of Canada.

The film depicts a group of men in Coaticook, Quebec who are performing the roles of the Papal Zouaves in a historical reenactment of the Capture of Rome during the Italian Risorgimento.

In 1867, Pope Pius IX called for volunteers to defend the Papacy against the troops of King Victor-Emmanuel, and Québec sent a contingent of 503 men to join the Papal Zouaves. Filmed at a centenary celebration of this event, the film is a humorous but sympathetic portrait of this elite group.

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968.

References

1. "Marcel Carrière" in Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 9780802083982.
2. "Première du documentaire «Avec tambours et trompettes»". Bilan du siècle (Université de Sherbrooke).
3. "With Drums and Trumpets". mcintyre.ca. McIntyre Media. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
4. "A Place To Stand: Film of Year". The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1968.

External links

• Watch Avec tambours et trompettes on the NFB website
• With Drums and Trumpets at IMDb

• 1967 films
• Canadian short documentary films
• Films shot in Quebec
• Films directed by Marcel Carrière
• National Film Board of Canada short films
• Best Short Documentary Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
• National Film Board of Canada documentaries
• French-language Canadian films
• 1960s Canadian films
• 1967 short documentary films