PREVIEW: Against The Ice (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Shot Caller), Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn), Charles Dance (The Imitation Game), Heida Reed (One Day), Ed Speleers (Eragon), Gísli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Diarmaid Murtagh (The Monuments Men), Frankie Wilson (The Souvenir), Sam Redford (The Hurt Locker), Þorsteinn Bachmann (Life in a Fishbowl), Nick Jameson (Breaking Waves)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Flinth (The Fakir), director; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Wildside), writer, producer; Joe Derrick (film debut), writer; Baltasar Kormákur (Everest), producer; Volker Bertelmann (Ammonite), composer; Torben Forsberg (Bokshu the Myth), cinematographer; Morten Højbjerg (The Black Madonna), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1909, Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) leads an expedition to ice-covered Greenland, and recover the bodies of those lost to the ill-fated Denmark expedition, which attempted to disprove the theory that Greenland was split into two pieces of land. Mikkelsen is accompanied by inexperienced crew member Iver Iversen (Cole), and soon the two of them are left to face the bitter cold as they attempt to complete their mission…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in and co-writes this nail-(frost)biting historical thriller, in which he plays noted Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 2ND MARCH 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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