Skerry Fairy-Tale

Apr 15, 1994

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

The year is 1891. The director of MoDo, Frans Kempe, is about to build the largest and most modern sawmill in Europe and a complete ideal society after his own mind. The place he chooses is Norrbyskär, some skerries in the Baltic Sea outside the cost of Västerbotten in northern Sweden. The experimental society with it's 1500 inhabitants and the large sawmill will live for almost 60 years.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

Naud produktion

SVT

Svenska Filminstitutet

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Cast

Frans Kempe

Hans Kellerman

Åsa Arhammar

Sune Berglund

Per Lundholm

Eivor Långström

Ola Nilsson

Tage Nilsson

Matts Carlgren

Rinaldo Forsgren

Agnes Hellman

Birger Hägglund

Wanda Rantamäki

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