Taglines: A quest for survival that became the adventure of a lifetime.
Shipwrecked movie storyline. Haakon Haakonsen didn’t want to go to sea so young, but when his father, a Norwegian sailor, comes home with a badly wounded foot in the 1850s, the Haakonsen family finances require him to enlist as ship boy aboard a British ship under Royal Navy authority. After some hazing he buckles up to learn the hard work and gets accepted by the rough crew.
Then Royal Navy lieutenant John Merrick is welcomed to take charge of security on a long voyage to Sidney and Calcutta, through pirates-infested waters, but Haakon distrusts him after finding out that he packed concealed weapons; indeed Merrick secretly poisons the captain. Haakon and his guardian angel, his father’s best mate Jens, were about to feel the claw of the cat for helping a stowaway when a rock wrecks the ship. Haakon washes up an island where he finds a pirates treasure and weapons.
Shipwrecked (Norwegian: Haakon Haakonsen) is a 1990 family action-adventure film. The film is a dramatization of Norwegian author Oluf Falck-Ytter’s book Haakon Haakonsen: En Norsk Robinson (Haakon Haakonsen: A Norwegian Robinson). In Norway, it was titled “Haakon Haakonsen”. The movie was produced by a consortium of Scandinavian companies and released in the US in an English-language version by Walt Disney Pictures.
Shipwrecked (1991)
Directed by: Nils Gaup
Starring: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Bjørn Sundquist, Eva von Hanno, Kjell Stormoen, Karl Sundby, Knut Walle, John Sigurd Kristensen
Screenplay by: Nils Gaup, Bob Foss, Greg Dinner, Nick Thiel
Production Design by: Roger Cain, Harald Egede-Nissen
Cinematography by: Erling Thurmann-Andersen
Film Editing by: Nils Pagh Andersen
Costume Design by: Lotte Dandanell, Bente Winther-Larsen
Set Decoration by: Jon Arvesen, Paul Delieu, Hroar Hesselberg, Dagfinn Kleppan
Art Direction by: John Miles, Per Mørk
Music by: Patrick Doyle
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: October 3, 1990
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