Scandinavian Immigrant: Nikolaj Lie Kaas

The Canadian Prairies Dept: MAD Ship is about a Scandinavian immigrant who makes the mistake of attempting to build a farming empire on the Canadian Prairies during the Dust Bowl/Great Depression. Faced with unrelenting personal tragedy, he loses his mind, builds a ship out of the farmhouse he lost in a foreclosure, and attempts to drag it across the Prairies with a notion of sailing back to Norway, according to Winnipeg Free Press. But this is a Canadian drama, so the madness depicted here is not in any way magnificent or perversely admirable. Loosely based on the true story of a Saskatchewan immigrant who went similarly mad, this is a story pretty much drenched in pathos and mom says dinner s ready, Dad; time to stop pulling the boat: Gage Munroe and his father, Nikolaj Lie Kaas in the anything but uplifting Mad Ship. The tale sounds something like Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo wherein Klaus Kinski attempts to drag a riverboat over a mountain in a mad scheme to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.