The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1968)

Directed by

Peter Pearson

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

50 min

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family struggles to find work and make ends meet in rural Ontario. The story follows the father as he tries to hold everything together in a hard-scrabble life.

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What happens

The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar is a 1968 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) drama directed by Peter Pearson, produced by John Kemeny and written by Joan Finnigan. The 49-minute drama stars Chris Wiggins and Kate Reid, along with Margot Kidder in her first feature role. Produced for the NFB's Challenge for Change program, the film had initially been "pushed aside and ignored by CBC TV," according to Canadian film scholar Gerald Pratley, who called it "A brilliant example of what our filmmakers could do if they had the opportunities and the material to replace the run-of-the-mill American films that dominate our theatres and television – the kind of inexpensive creativity private broadcasters continue to say they cannot afford." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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