Shipbuilder

Shipbuilder (1985)

What would drive a man to spend 10 years of his life building a ship in the middle of the prairie 17 miles (27 km) from the nearest body of water?

TMDb

0.0

01/01/1985 • 0h 6m
original-title

Shipbuilder

status

Released

production-companies

ONF | NFB

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

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This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native Finland. The ship never reached water.

production-countries

Canada

spoken-languages

English

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