According to Netflix subscribers, the Norwegian disaster series The war sailor (2023) (War Sailor in English) really highly recommended. The intense Scandinavian series impresses viewers: “Intense and intense, but very beautifully made.”
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7.2 Watch on Netflix • When World War II breaks out, two sailors on a Norwegian trading ship face brutal conditions and must survive a conflict.
Alfred Garnes is a laborer and sailor who recently became the father of his third child. When World War II breaks out, he finds himself on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with his childhood friend Sigbjørn Kvalen. Suddenly they are unarmed civilians on the front lines of a war they never asked for.
Surrounded by a spiral of violence and death, the two men fight daily for survival. At any moment a German submarine can strike and send their vulnerable ship to the basement. For these war toilers, only one thing matters: surviving and coming home in one piece.
Beeld: ‘The Sailor of War’ via Netflix (TMDB)
