The Sea Wolf (1993)

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Movie
German title The sea wolf
Original title The Sea Wolf
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Anderson
script Andrew J. Fenady
production Duke Fenady
W. Paterson Ferns
music Charles Bernstein
camera Glen MacPherson
cut Nick Rotundo
occupation

The Sea Wolf is a 1993 American television adventure film based on the Jack London novel of the same name . The main roles were played by Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve .

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The aristocrat Humphrey Van Weyden is on the crossing to San Francisco . In the evening, in thick fog, the ferry is rammed by an unknown steamer and sinks.

Van Weyden and the young Flaxen Brewster, whom he met on the ferry, drift off and are eventually fished up by the outgoing sealer Ghost . Wolf Larsen, the captain, keeps the two on board without further ado, as a man has just fallen out and he would not have been prepared to turn back because of such a "triviality" anyway. Larsen is a tough man with enormous physical strength who ruthlessly harasses his team. At the same time, he is very intelligent and lives according to an uncompromising Darwinian philosophy: "Whoever wants to live has to fight for the right to do so."
He is amused to watch how the aesthetic Van Weyden has to earn his daily bread with hard physical work and above all is humiliated by the greasy ship's cook Mugridge.

Everyday life on board is characterized by harsh customs and brutal discipline.

When Mugridge tries to attack Flaxen, Van Weyden strikes back for the first time, the hard work and the rough everyday life begin to change him. According to Larsen's philosophy, it has now risen a little in the food chain.

One day the situation escalates: Mugridge wanted to ingratiate himself with Larsen by telling him about some blasphemy on the part of the sailors George Leach, with whom Flaxen fell in love, and Johnson. Larsen punishes the two and then makes fun of himself by exposing Mugridge as a traitor, who is keeled for by the angry crew . A shark bit off his leg.

Over time, Van Weyden and Larsen develop a kind of relationship of trust. Larsen shows him, among other things, an invention that makes navigating at sea child's play. According to his attitude to life, he does not see it as a service to humanity, but as an opportunity to make a fortune. At the same time, Van Weyden also notices that Larsen appears to be suffering from a serious illness. Again and again he is plagued by severe headaches in connection with temporary blindness. Larsen attributes this to an incident in his youth when his older brother, who is also the captain of a sealer, smashed a beer bottle on the skull.

Larsen has a plan. He has brought loads of weapons and ammunition on board to cut off his brother's course and steal the sealskins he has captured. His seizures are now increasing and the blindness lingers longer each time. That same night Van Weyden and Flaxen decide to flee. They steal one of the fishing boats and row out into the night hoping to hit land.

After several days at sea, their supplies are used up. They lost their bearings in thick fog until they heard shots and the crack of a cannon in the distance. Wolf Larsen has tracked down his hated brother. Despite the danger, they row in the direction from which the noises of the battle, which have now subsided, came.

At nightfall they come across the leaked and sinking Ghost . Van Weyden goes on board to get new supplies and discovers Larsen, completely blind, chained in the storage room. His crew mutinied and left him to die. Van Weyden frees him, but Larsen has no intention of abandoning his ship. On the contrary, he wants to keep Van Weyden with him to show him that he still has power over him even now.

Flaxen, who followed Van Weyden, can still convince Larsen to let him go. They return to their rowing boat and steer towards the coast with the help of Larsen's navigation device. Wolf Larsen himself sinks into the depths of the sea with his ship.

Others

  • For the scene in which the ferry is rammed by an unknown steamer, post-colored film material from the film version of the same name from 1941 was used.

DVD release

  • The Sea Wolf - A man, hard and rough as the sea , October 25, 1999, EMS DVD

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