The Deep
Dramadrowningshipwreckfishermanicelandbased on true storystormstruggle for survivalrescue from drowningstorm at seahypothermia
A harrowing true-survival drama that transforms a man's battle against the freezing sea into a meditation on human resilience and the inexplicable will to live.
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.
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