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.
as Gerrit de Veer
as Petrus Plancius
as Willem Barentsz
as Catharina Plancius
as Jacob van Heemskerck
as Laurens
as Kok
as Pieter Vos
as Chirurgijn
as Claes
as Jan Fransz
as Adriaan
