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GHOSTS OF THE SEA

LES ENFANTS DU LARGE

By Virginia TANGVALD

RESERVOIR DOCS - as SALES All rights, World except France, Canada

Thriller - Completed 2024

A documentary thriller at sea, an incredible family story

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Thriller, Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Virginia TANGVALD
- Writer(s)
- Virginia TANGVALD
- Producer(s)
- Maeva SAVINIEN (URBAN FACTORY), Élaine HÉBERT (MICRO_SCOPE), Nathalie CLOUTIER (NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA)
- Synopsis
- Virginia only knew her father, the relentless adventurer Peter Tangvald, through his best-selling memoirs. After experiencing success followed by bankruptcy in Beverly Hills in the 1950’s, he left everything behind to spend the rest of his life sailing the world on a boat he built himself.
  
  Married seven times, he lost two wives at sea before dying himself alongside his 8-year-old daughter when his boat sank in the West Indies in 1991. His son, Thomas, the only survivor of this tragedy, subsequently vanished at sea without a trace, in 2014.
  
  In an investigation taking her from Scandinavia to France via Canada and the Caribbean, Virginia sets out to uncover the secrets of her family and understand her brother’s mysterious disappearance. As disturbing revelations and suspicious deaths pile up, she starts to discover what her brother Thomas may have been running from, and realizes that her father may not be the hero she – like many others – had idealized her whole life.