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.
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
- Juda Goslinga as Laurens
- Bas Keijzer as Kok
- Teun Kuilboer as Pieter Vos
- Mads Wittermans as Chirurgijn
- Semmy Schilt as Claes