Released:
2011-11-23

Overview:
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.

Director:
Reinout Oerlemans

Runtime:
1h 48min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Robert de Hoog
  as
  Gerrit de Veer
• 
  Jan Decleir
  as
  Petrus Plancius
• 
  Derek de Lint
  as
  Willem Barentsz
• 
  Doutzen Kroes
  as
  Catharina Plancius
• 
  Victor Reinier
  as
  Jacob van Heemskerck