The Deep

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Writer: Jón Atli Jónason, Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Language: Icelandic
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Synopsis: 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. [Synopsis courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival]

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