Plot
Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 7.0/10 (714 voted)
Director:Baltasar Kormákur
Storyline
Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
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Box Office Details
Budget: €2,000,000
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Rating: 8/10
Icelandic screenwriter, actor, producer and director Baltasar
Kormákur's eight feature film which he co-wrote with Icelandic
screenwriter Jón Atli Jónasson and co-produced, is inspired by real
events in the life of an Icelandic man named Guðlaugur Friðþórsson and
four other men which took place in 1984 on one of the Westman Islands
called Heimaey. It premiered in Iceland, was screened in the Special
Presentations section at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival
in 2012, was shot on locations in the North Atlantic Ocean and is an
Iceland-Norway co-production which was produced by producer Agnes
Johansen. It tells the story about a fisherman named Gulli who lives in
a coastal town and who is few days away from heading out to the sea on
a fishing boat called Breki-VE with his crew members.
Finely and engagingly directed by Nordic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur,
this finely paced and somewhat fictional reconstruction which is
narrated mostly from the main character's point of view, draws a
gripping portrayal of an Icelandic man and the crucial decision he has
to make after a boat accident in the North Atlantic Ocean. While
notable for it's naturalistic and atmospheric milieu depictions and
reverent cinematography by Icelandic cinematographer Bergsteinn
Björgúlfsson, this character-driven story depicts a commendable study
of character and contains a great score by composers Daniel Bjarnason
and Ben Frost.
This dramatic, humorous and modestly existentialistic drama which is
set in the Vestmannaeyar in Iceland during a spring in 1984 and where a
man ends up in a situation where the deep is below him, the sky above
him and his only option is to swim or die, is impelled and reinforced
by it's cogent narrative structure, substantial character development
and the involving and efficiently understated acting performance by
Icelandic actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson. A heartrending, inspirational,
mythical and invigorating true story which is dedicated to Icelandic
fishermen.
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