With their acclaimed films The Wave and
The Quake, Norway's Fantefilm Fiksjon have established themselves as the modern masters of
the disaster movie. Next up from the team is director John Andreas Andersen's The Burning Sea.
The film sees a crack appear in the ocean floor as a result of offshore
drilling. A team of researchers race to find a solution before the damage
spreads to apocalyptic proportions.
Kristine Kujath Thorp, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Anders Baasmo, Bjørn
Floberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Ane Skumsvoll, Cengiz Al
and Nils Elias Olsen star.
The Burning Sea is on UK/ROI VOD from May 30th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world's largest oil fields in the neighbouring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling.Fifty years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest - a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), rushes in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage. But what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe. As rigs are evacuated, Sofia's partner Stian (Henrik Bjelland) becomes trapped in the depths of the sea, leaving Sofia to come to his rescue.
