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.
Robert de Hoog
Gerrit de Veer
Jan Decleir
Petrus Plancius
Derek de Lint
Willem Barentsz
Doutzen Kroes
Catharina Plancius
Victor Reinier
Jacob van Heemskerck
Juda Goslinga
Laurens
Bas Keijzer
Kok
Teun Kuilboer
Pieter Vos
