The Deep

6.3(126)20121h 35m

Drama

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.

Director

Baltasar Kormákur

Budget

$3.0M

Cast

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

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1 review

Svumpukkel85

8y ago

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...