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Gopher Broke
197924 min 3 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Peter Thurling
Production: Roman KroitorStefan Wodoslawsky
Script: Terrence HeathPeter Thurling
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the CBC, ATEC of Canada and the National Museum of Man.
The Depression era. A small town in Saskatchewan, Dominion Day, 1935. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant runs up against a group of desperate people who plan to join the Trekkers on their march to Ottawa in protest against the daily wage of twenty cents a day paid by the government to the unemployed in federal labour camps. Kid, the hero, has wrangled a truck and is planning to transport people and food to the Regina meeting place. Because of its illegal nature, their mission is thwarted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But only briefly. Humour, suspense and music enliven this short historical drama.
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Subject categories
- Economics > Great DepressionWork Issues
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Great DepressionWestern Canada
- Politics and Government - Canada > PrairiesSocial Action
Credits
- director
- Peter Thurling
- producer
- Roman Kroitor
- Stefan Wodoslawsky
- executive producer
- Roman Kroitor
- script
- Terrence Heath
- Peter Thurling
- photography
- Savas Kalogeras
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- Sidonie Kerr
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Michael Taylor
- Anne Wright
- Michael Millar