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Sea Wolf (miniseries)

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The Sea Wolf
Directed byMichael Barker
Written byJack London
Nigel Williams
Produced byHerbert G. Kloiber
Rikolt von Gagern
Verena von Heeremann
StarringSebastian Koch
Tim Roth
Neve Campbell
Stephen Campbell Moore
CinematographyRichard Greatrex
Edited byDean Solty
Music byRichard G. Mitchell
Distributed byTeleMunchen
Release date
2009 (2009)
Running time
180 minutes
CountriesGermany, Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$19,000,000

Sea Wolf (English: The Sea Wolf) - movie. This miniseries is a screen version of the book written by Jack London.[1]

Plot

In a mishap, a young poetry critic Humphrey van Weyden is cast adrift in the open sea. He is picked up by a seal hunting schooner, but his miraculous escape turns into a brutal struggle for survival. The schooner is captained by 'Wolf' Larsen - an authoritarian and harsh captain.

Production

The film was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners Alabama, Silva and the museum ship CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Jack London". IMDB. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. ^ "CSS Acadia Filmography", Maritime Museum of the Atlantic