''Sea Wolf'' is a 2-part TV

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adapting the 1904 novel '' The Sea-Wolf'', written by Jack London.

Plot

In a mishap, a young poetry critic Humphrey van Weyden is cast adrift in the open sea. He is picked up by a seal hunting schooner, but his miraculous escape turns into a brutal struggle for survival. The schooner is captained by 'Wolf' Larsen - an authoritarian and harsh captain.

Production

The series was mostly shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia using the Halifax waterfront doubling as San Francisco with shipboard scenes filmed aboard the schooners ''Alabama'', ''Silva'' and the museum ship CSS ''Acadia'' at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic."CSS Acadia Filmography", ''Maritime Museum of the Atlantic''
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Cast

Sebastian Koch Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German television and film actor. He is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film '' The Lives of Others'', in Steven Spielberg's '' Bridge of Spies'', and as Otto Düring in the fifth season o ...

- Wolf Larsen * Tim Roth - Death Larsen * Neve Campbell - Maud Brewster * Stephen Campbell Moore - Humphrey Van Weyden * Andrew Jackson - Johnson * Tobias Schenke - Leach

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