Sea Wolf (miniseries)
The Sea Wolf | |
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Based on | The Sea-Wolf by Jack London |
Written 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 | |
Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
Running time | 180 minutes |
Distributor | |
Budget | $19,000,000 |
Release | |
Original release | 2009 |
Sea Wolf is a 2-part TV miniseries adapting the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, written by Jack London.
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 series 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.[1]
Cast[]
- Sebastian Koch - Wolf Larsen
- Tim Roth - Death Larsen
- Neve Campbell - Maud Brewster
- Stephen Campbell Moore - Humphrey Van Weyden
- Andrew Jackson - Johnson
- Tobias Schenke - Leach
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Categories:
- 2009 television films
- 2009 films
- German television miniseries
- 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
- Canadian television film stubs
- Adventure film stubs