The Deep (2012)

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Movie
German title The Deep
Original title Djúpið
Country of production Iceland
original language Icelandic
Publishing year 2012
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Baltasar Kormákur
script Baltasar Kormákur
Jón Atli Jónasson
production Baltasar Kormákur
Agnes Johansen
music Daníel Bjarnason
Ben Frost
camera Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
cut Sverrir Kristjánsson
Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir
occupation

The Deep ( Icelandic Djúpið ) is an Icelandic drama film directed by Baltasar Kormákur from 2012. It is based on the true story of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson . The film was the Icelandic entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2013 Academy Awards , but failed to make it as the final candidate. Baltasar Kormákur dedicated this film to the Icelandic fishermen.

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The film begins with Gulli meeting the new cook for his fishing team in a pub in March 1984. The next morning Gulli and four other fishermen, still hungover from the previous evening, go to sea with their boat called "BREKI". The fishing is not as successful as hoped and the motivation drops. The net gets tangled up on a stone for a brief moment, but you can quickly loosen it. When they are several kilometers from the coast of Heimaey Island , the scenario repeats itself and the boat capsizes. It all happens so quickly that an emergency call could no longer be sent. One crew member dies of a head injury on the ship, another drowns.

The remaining three men escape to part of the ship that juts out of the sea. The captain decides that everyone is on their own and they have to swim. Gulli doesn't want to leave his friend Palli alone, who is already showing the first signs of hypothermia . They swim off together and see a ship, which they cannot see. The somewhat overweight Gulli is a good swimmer and tries to help Palli, but it is in vain. Palli passes out from the cold and dies. The captain has also drowned.

Gulli takes off all heavy clothing and only swims in shirt and pants. On the way he is accompanied by seagulls with whom he talks. Again he meets a ship. But his team doesn't see him either. He kept having flashbacks of a volcanic eruption when he was a little boy. After six hours in the five-degree cold water and an air temperature of minus three degrees, he reaches the coast of Heimaey , which is too steep for an ascent. So he slips back into the water to look for a better way to get ashore. Finally done, he has to walk barefoot through a lava field. Halfway there he finds a tub of ice water. He drinks from it when he is very dehydrated.

After another two hours, he arrives in a village and is taken from there to the hospital in a helicopter. His body temperature has now dropped below 33 ° C and is therefore outside the range of the clinical thermometer. However, he survived without major injuries. Search parties are sent out to look for the ship and its colleagues. At first he is not believed that he could actually swim far enough for them to actually find the fishing boat. However, nobody can be found anymore. Even so, the city holds a memorial service for the fishermen. For many Icelanders it is a miracle that he survived and from then on he is considered a national hero. After watching an interview about his story on television, a scientist visits Gulli and asks him if he is available for research to find a logical explanation for his survival.

He will then be examined on site. It will soon be brought to London for more extensive testing . Among other things, he has to stay there in an ice pool with three much fitter men. He manages it without any problems, whereby the other participants have to drop out much earlier. The scientist discovered that Gulli's fat contains special enzymes that enable him to regulate his body temperature seven times longer than the average person. He compares Gulli's fat to the fat of seals. The results are still unsatisfactory, however, as no one can explain why Gulli's brain activities did not suffer from the cold.

After numerous tests, Gulli becomes too much and he decides to return to Iceland, although the investigations are not yet completed. Back on the Westman Islands , Gulli looks after the family of his friend Palli and the dog of a colleague who died in the shipwreck. He encourages Palli's wife and explains to the two sons how he was able to survive, but her father not. He remains humble despite his status as a national hero. After a while he starts working as a fisherman again.

At the end of the film, excerpts from the interview by Guðlaugur Friðþórsson from 1984 can be seen.

background

The film is based on the true story of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson , who, at the age of 23, went to sea with four other fishermen in March 1984 and was the only one of the five men to survive after the fishing boat capsized and after six hours in the Atlantic. It has been studied by scientists who wanted to find an explanation for its survival. It was found that their subcutaneous fat layer is thicker than that of the average person. Jóhann Axelsson, then head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík , said: “The above-average fat layer certainly played a role in Laugis' survival. Other unknown factors likely contributed as well. But Keatinge [Note: William R. Keatinge, former employee in the Physiology Department of the Hospital Medical College in London] and I both agreed that his mental strength, his composure and perseverance must have played a significant role. "

Reviews

"Fact-based, touching and thought-provoking drama about a fisherman's struggle for survival in the icy waters off Iceland."

- kino.de

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for The Deep . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 236 K).
  2. ↑ http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20121221.html
  3. ↑ Oscars 2013 - All nominees in all categories at welt.de
  4. ↑ Natural phenomenon - The secret of the seal man on the website of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  5. ↑ www.kino.de