Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
Rating: TV-MA.|||adult
a See-Saw Films and Rhombus Media production ; BBC and CBC produced ; in association with BBC Studios Distribution and Anton Capital SCA ; produced by Kate Ogborn ; written and directed by Andrew Haigh.
Title from discs' surfaces.
Originally broadcast on television by BBC Two in the United Kingdom and Super Channel Fuse in Canada in 2021. Broadcast on television in the United States on AMC+ in 2021.
Based on Ian McGuire's 2016 novel of the same name.
Includes behind the scenes featurette.
Wide screen.
Running time on discs' surfaces and container: approximately 225 minutes. Running time: "286" minutes--
Jack O'Connell, Colin Farrell, Sam Spruell, Roland Moller, Peter Mullan, Tom Courtenay.
Nicolas Bolduc, cinematographer.
DVD, wide screen (1.85:1), Dolby Digital 5.1.
English SDH subtitles.
