IXE-13

{{Short description|1971 Canadian film}} {{Infobox film | name = IXE-13 | image = | caption = Film poster | director = Jacques Godbout | producer = Pierre Gauvreau | writer = Jacques Godbout | based_on = ''Les Aventures étranges de l'Agent IXE-13'' by Pierre Daignault | starring = André Dubois<br>Louise Forestier | music = François Dompierre | cinematography = Thomas Vámos | editing = Werner Nold | studio = National Film Board of Canada | distributor = | runtime = 115 minutes | released = {{Film date|1971}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''IXE-13''''' is a 1971 Canadian spy comedy film, written and directed by Jacques Godbout.<ref name=pratley>Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 110.</ref>

Made in conjunction with the sketch comedy troupe {{Interlanguage link|Les Cyniques|fr|Les Cyniques}}, that included Serge Grenier, Marc Laurendeau, Marcel Saint-Germain and André Dubois. The film stars the latter as Jean Thibault, agent "IXE-13", the "Ace of Canadian Spies", who sets off to save his fiancée Gisèle after she is kidnapped while he is on a mission.<ref name=fdq>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/ixe-13-jacques-godbout/ "IXE-13 – Film de Jacques Godbout"]. ''Films du Québec'', February 17, 2009.</ref> Louise Forestier also stars in a dual role as both Gisèle and Taya, the "Queen of the Chinese Communists" who undergoes plastic surgery to look like Gisèle as part of her plot to get close enough to IXE-13 to kill him.<ref name=fdq/> Its cast also includes Louisette Dussault, Carole Laure and Luce Guilbeault.

The film was based on Paul Daignault's ''Les Aventures étranges de l'Agent IXE-13'' series of pulp spy stories.<ref>Paul Corupe, [https://offscreen.com/view/ixe_13 "Double O-Canada: Decoding IXE-13 from Page to Screen"]. ''Off Screen'', Volume 9, Issue 5 (May 2005).</ref>

The film premiered theatrically in late 1971, before opening commercially in January 1972.<ref>[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/aujourd-hui-l-histoire/segments/entrevue/116180/ixe13-cyniques-jacques-godbout-pierre-daignault-saurel "IXE-13, un immense succès d’édition et un film culte"]. Ici Radio-Canada Première, May 1, 2019.</ref>

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Category:1971 films Category:1971 comedy films Category:Canadian comedy films Category:Canadian spy films Category:National Film Board of Canada films Category:Films directed by Jacques Godbout Category:1970s spy comedy films Category:1971 French-language films Category:French-language Canadian films Category:1971 Canadian films