The Deserter (French: Le déserteur [lə dezɛʁtœʁ]) is a 2008 Quebec feature film directed by Simon Lavoie.
The film stars Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Raymond Cloutier, Danielle Proulx, Viviane Audet, Benoît Gouin and Gilles Renaud.
In May 1944, a few months after Guénette deserted from the army, four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers found Guenette in his father's farmhouse, in St-Lambert-de-Lévis (near Quebec City).
Guénette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," and died without the last rites of the church.
[3] Two RCMP officers were later charged with manslaughter in Guénette's death, and the shooting was an issue in the 1944 Quebec general election.