Country: Netherlands, Albania
Year: 1993
Duration: 75'


In 1941 an old ships-carpenter turns up in an Irish fishing village allegeing that he is the only survivor of a secret expedition to the South Pole. J. C. Suffivan expIains that he signed on in 1905 with the Hollandia, without knowing the ships destination. At the time the South Pole was virtually unknown, a white and inhospitable void at the end of the world. Sullivan startled his interrogators with his improbable story of this expedition, which eventually took him and several other crewmen to the very edge of the world and of life, to a hell which no one can return. But Sullivan has film material to prove his story: breathtaking shots of an unknown landscape. "Understand, we have gone beyond, to the Other Side", says Sullivan.
The footage of the South Pole in The Forbidden Quest is indeed authentic; they are shots made during polar expeditions in the first thirty years of this century. These authentic pictures have been found by Peter Delpeut in the collection of the Netherlands Film Museum.

Biography

film director

Peter Delpeut

Peter Delpeut was born in 1956 and graduated from, the Dutch Film Academy in 1984. He is currently working as programmer at the Dutch Film Museum.

FILMOGRAFIA

Emma Zunz (cm, 1984), Stravers (1986), Toreador in Hollywood (cm, doc., 1987), Trouble Head (cm, 1987), Pierrot Lunaire (cm, co-dir., 1988), Ghatak (cm, co-dir., 1989), Lyricat Nitrate (mm, 1990), The Forbidden Quest (1993).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Peter Delpeut.
Director of photography: Stef Tijkink.
Art director: Herman Coenen, Vincent de Pater.
Editor: Menno Boerma.
Music: Loek Dikker.
Cast: Joseph O'Conor, Roy Ward.
Director of Production: Suzanne van Voorst.
Production company: Ariel Film Produkties, fax +31-20-6380149.
Foreign sales agent: Fortissimo Film Sales, Droogbak 4, 1013 GE Amsterdam, tel. +31-20-6273215, fax +31-20-6261155.
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