The River Schooners (1968)
Les voitures d'eau
The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas.
- Date of release
- 1968-01-01
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Pierre Perrault
Casting
- Laurent Tremblay — Self - Captain of the Amanda Transport
- Aurèle Tremblay — Self - Laurent Tremblay's Son
- Yvan Tremblay — Self - Laurent Tremblay's Son
- Éloi Perron — Self - Captain of the M. P. Émélie
- Nérée Harvey — Self - Captain of the G. Montcalm
- Joachim Harvey — Self - Captain of the Cap-de-l'Ile
- Léopold Tremblay — Self
- Alexis Tremblay — Self
- Louis Harvey — Self - aka Grand-Louis-à-Joseph-de-l'Anse
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Île aux Coudres
The River Schooners is a 1968 Canadian documentary, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Pierre Perrault. The third and final film in his "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" after Pour la suite du monde and The Times That Are , the film portrays workers in L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, who are employed in the traditional but fading art of building wooden schooners.
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