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Director(s):
MERTIN (Wolfgang)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2008
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Language(s):
German, English, Arabic, Korean, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian
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Rights:
NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET
This report accompanies a polar cargo ship through the Arctic Sea and provides a rare insight into the interior of the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker float.
Along the north coast of Russia, a land of climatic extremes, lies one of the most difficult to navigate straits in the world. The Northern Sea route is a 6,000 kilometer shipping lane through the Polar Sea.
For the container ships that supply the coastal industrial centers like Norilsk in the winter, the icy route cannot be cruised alone. A total of 3 nuclear-powered icebreakers must tow them through the meters of ice.