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Film / 2011
Nova Zembla
Directed by
Reinout Oerlemans
Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following …
The story
Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero.
Cast
Robert de HoogGerrit de Veer
Jan DecleirPetrus Plancius
Derek de LintWillem Barentsz
Doutzen KroesCatharina Plancius
Victor ReinierJacob van Heemskerck
Juda GoslingaLaurens
Bas KeijzerKok
Teun KuilboerPieter Vos
Mads WittermansChirurgijn
Semmy SchiltClaes
Jochum van der WoudeJan Fransz
Arend BrandligtAdriaan
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