Nova Zembla
Directed by Reinout Oerlemans
Produced by Saga Film, Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
A grim historical survival drama where ambitious exploration becomes a desperate fight against nature's indifference, told through the eyes of a chronicler documenting humanity's fragility.
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.
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