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Shipwrecked (1990)

Shipwrecked poster
Original title
Håkon Håkonsen
Directed by
Nils Gaup
Genre
pirate film, children's film
Country
Sweden, United States, Norway
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 74 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Norwegian boy survives a shipwreck and washes up on a remote island. He must use his wits and courage to fend for himself while evading a ruthless pirate.

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What happens

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). The film was produced by a consortium of Scandinavian companies and released in the US in an English-language version by Walt Disney Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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