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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.

Events

  • March 11th , 1984, fisherman Guðlaugur Friðþórsson survives 6 hours in freezing water

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur

Starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Joi Johannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

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