Shipwrecked

Shipwrecked (1990)

Håkon Håkonsen

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Date of release
1990-10-03
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (77)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Adventure, Family
Director
Nils Gaup

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Haakon Haakonsen: A Norwegian Robinson
  • Filmed in: Spain

Shipwrecked is a 1990 family action-adventure film directed by Nils Gaup and starring Stian Smestad and Gabriel Byrne. The film is a dramatization of Norwegian author Oluf Falck-Ytter's book Håkon Håkonsen. En norsk Robinson.

Production

The original 1873 Norwegian novel, aimed at young readers, was inspired by another adventure classic, Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.

The film was shot on location in Fiji, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom in July to October 1989.

In the original version of the film, the Norwegian characters speak Norwegian to each other and English to English characters, while the English characters speak English only. In the international version, all lines in Norwegian are dubbed over in English, in most cases by the Norwegian actors themselves.

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