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Heweliusz (2025)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1993, the Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz capsizes off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
ferry, shipwreck, tragedy, disaster, survival, loss, realism, trauma, investigation, isolation, investigative journalism, heroism, bureaucracy, ethics, catastrophe, sinking boat, ship, baltic sea, memorial
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 1990s
Place:
poland
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