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Shipwrecked. (1990 film) Shipwrecked ( Norwegian: Haakon Haakonsen) 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 Haakon Haakonsen: En Norsk Robinson ( Haakon Haakonsen: A Norwegian Robinson ).
Mar 1, 1991 · Shipwrecked: Directed by Nils Gaup. With Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Milwood-Haigh, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch. A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
- (3.2K)
- Adventure, Family
- Nils Gaup
- 1991-03-01
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Stian Smestad. ... Haakon Haakonsen. Gabriel Byrne. ... Lt. John Merrick. Louisa Milwood-Haigh.
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- (93)
- Nils Gaup
- PG
- 24
After his father is injured, young Haakon Haakonsen (Stian Smedstad) takes a job as a cabin boy aboard a ship in order to support his family. There, he befriends shipmate Jens (Trond Peter Stamsø ...
- (78)
- Nils Gaup
- TV-PG
- Stian Smedstad
Haakon Haakonsen didn't want to go to sea so young, but when his father, a Norwegian sailor, comes home with a badly wounded foot in the 1850s, the Haakonsen family finances require him to enlist as ship boy aboard a British ship under Royal Navy authority. After some hazing he buckles up to learn the hard work and gets accepted by the rough ...
Two nostalgic takeaways from Shipwrecked: 1. I distinctly remember crying in the back of the theater because this film was too scary for me. Now, seeing it came out in 1990, I realize I was 3 years old when I saw this. 2. Maybe because of the heightened fear, or the public shame of crying, this film and the images in it are seared in my mind.