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
as Gerrit de Veer
Jan Decleir
as Petrus Plancius
Derek de Lint
as Willem Barentsz
Doutzen Kroes
as Catharina Plancius
Victor Reinier
as Jacob van Heemskerck
Juda Goslinga
as Laurens
Bas Keijzer
as Kok
Teun Kuilboer
as Pieter Vos
Mads Wittermans
as Chirurgijn
Semmy Schilt
as Claes
Jochum van der Woude
as Jan Fransz
Arend Brandligt
as Adriaan
