Shipbuilder

Directed by Stephen Surjik · Starring Kristjana Gunnars, Galen Wahlmeier, Sasha Konowal · 1985

The true story of Tom Sukanen, a Finnish homesteader on the Saskatchewan prairie who spent a decade building an iron ship to sail back home.

A strange and moving true tale of a man hauling a ship across the prairie, far from any sea.

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

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