Sea Wolf (miniseries)
Appearance
Sea Wolf | |
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Based on | The Sea-Wolf 1904 novel by Jack London |
Screenplay by | Nigel Williams |
Directed by | Michael Barker |
Starring | Sebastian Koch Tim Roth Neve Campbell Stephen Campbell Moore |
Composer | Richard G. Mitchell |
Country of origin | Germany Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 2 |
Production | |
Producers | Herbert G. Kloiber Rikolt von Gagern Verena von Heeremann |
Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
Editor | Dean Soltys |
Running time | 180 minutes |
Budget | $19,000,000 |
Original release | |
Release | 2009 |
Sea Wolf is a 2-part TV miniseries aired in 2009, adapting the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, written by Jack London.
Plot
[edit]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
[edit]The series was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners Alabama,[1] Silva and the museum ship CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Sebastian Koch as Wolf Larsen
- Tim Roth as Death Larsen
- Neve Campbell as Maud Brewster
- Stephen Campbell Moore as Humphrey Van Weyden
- Andrew Jackson as Johnson
- Tobias Schenke as Leach
References
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Categories:
- 2009 television films
- 2009 films
- 2000s German television miniseries
- 2000s Canadian television miniseries
- Television shows based on American novels
- ZDF original programming
- Films based on The Sea-Wolf
- Television shows based on works by Jack London
- English-language Canadian films
- English-language German films
- 2000s Canadian films
- Canadian television film stubs
- Adventure film stubs