The Forbidden Quest

The Forbidden Quest (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Peter Delpeut

Written By:
Peter Delpeut

Actors:
Joseph O'Conor ..... J.C. Sullivan
Roy Ward ..... Interviewer

Synopsis:

1941: in Ireland, a film maker hears of an aged ship's carpenter who knows the fate of the Hollandia, a Norse ship that set sail in 1905 and vanished. The old salt has canisters of film to prove his tale. We see the footage as he narrates. They sail south in June, 1905, with scores of Siberian huskies aboard, meeting no living soul, the crew ignorant of the trip's purpose, until they reach Antarctica. A mysterious Italian paces the deck; a polar bear appears, and the Italian, possessed, hunts it down. That night, the boatswain explains to the crew how an Arctic bear could be at the South Pole and why the Hollandia has come. Visitors arrive, and the Gothic tale plays out.

In 1931, a lone survivor of the Hollandia, which set sail for Antarctica more than two decades prior, turns up in Ireland. He has film of the disastrous expedition, which reveals striking imagery of polar bears and frozen wastes. But even more compelling is the man's story of supernatural forces that he claims besieged the ship. This film, a unique fact/fiction hybrid, utilizes footage of Antarctica shot during the first half of the 1900s, when the continent was still strange and new.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 25 April, 2016.

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