The Deep

Sep 7, 2012

1h 35m

★ 6.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

BlueEyes Productions

Filmhuset Produksjoner

The Deep Trailers

Cast

Gulli (Guðlaugs Friðþjófssonar)

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Palli

Joi Johannsson

Halla

Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir

Gulli's Father

Theodór Júlíusson

Gulli's Mother

María Sigurðardóttir

Hannes

Björn Thors

Stefán Hallur Stefánsson

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson

Guðjón Pedersen

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