The Deep
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
- 6.3
- 2012
- Released
- 1h 35m
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Gulli (Guðlaugs Friðþjófssonar)
Joi Johannsson
Palli
Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
Halla
Theodór Júlíusson
Gulli's Father
María Sigurðardóttir
Gulli's Mother
Björn Thors
Hannes
Stefán Hallur Stefánsson
Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Guðjón Pedersen
Released
is
$3,000,000.00
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- #hypothermia
Reviews
Brilliant! A gripping true story about an Icelandic fisherman's worst nightmare; Sinking of the fishing vessel during a cold, stormy night in 1984. It is a man's remarkable struggle for survival, by swimming and surviving in icecold water (5 degrees celcius) for 6 hours! It left the whole world in awe, and scientists puzzled. The man in question is the humble and goodhearted fisherman G