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.
Doutzen Kroes | Catharina Plancius |
Derek de Lint | Willem Barentsz |
Jan Decleir | Petrus Plancius |
Robert de Hoog | Gerrit de Veer |
Victor Reinier | Jacob van Heemskerck |
Juda Goslinga | Laurens |
Bas Keijzer | Kok |
Teun Kuilboer | Pieter Vos |
Mads Wittermans | Chirurgijn |
Semmy Schilt | Claes |
Jochum van der Woude | Jan Fransz |
Arend Brandligt | Adriaan |