Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
as Gulli (Guðlaugs Friðþjófssonar)

Joi Johannsson
as Palli

Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
as Halla

Theodór Júlíusson
as Gulli's Father

María Sigurðardóttir
as Gulli's Mother

Björn Thors
as Hannes

Stefán Hallur Stefánsson
as

Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
as

Guðjón Pedersen
as
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Brilliant! A gripping true story about an Icelandic fisherman's worst nightmare; Sinking of the fishing vessel during a cold, stormy night in 1984. It is a man's remarkable struggle for survival, by swimming and surviving in icecold water (5 degrees celcius) for 6 hours! It left the whole wor...