WRITER
ANDREW HAIGH
DIRECTORS
ANDREW HAIGH
CAST
JACK O’CONNELL
COLIN FARRELL
STEPHEN GRAHAM
TOM COURTENAY
SAM SPRUELL
ROLAND MØLLER
Based on the critically acclaimed novel from Ian McGuire, and set in the UK and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, ‘The North Water’ tells the story of Patrick Sumner (O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax (Farrell), the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
Produced with Kate Ogborn for BBC Two.