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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,577 Holland is penniless after its war with the Spanish Empire. 2 00:00:34,577 --> 00:00:38,831 To survive, it needs trade with the Far East. 3 00:00:38,831 --> 00:00:41,542 The problem is the route. 4 00:00:43,670 --> 00:00:49,259 Cornelis de Hout with his fleet seeks a route through the Spanish blockades... 5 00:00:49,259 --> 00:00:52,135 and around the Cape of Good Hope. 6 00:00:57,767 --> 00:01:00,185 Nothing more is heard of him. 7 00:01:00,812 --> 00:01:03,064 The influential minister Petrus Plancius asks the explorer William Barentsz... 8 00:01:03,064 --> 00:01:09,611 to look for a Northeast passage past Nova Zembla. 9 00:01:22,166 --> 00:01:25,711 Two previous attempts failed. 10 00:02:44,791 --> 00:02:49,587 To the noble, wise and wealthy patron... 11 00:02:49,587 --> 00:02:51,588 the Reverend Plancius. 12 00:02:52,757 --> 00:02:56,135 Many coasts that were once unknown... 13 00:02:56,135 --> 00:03:00,598 have recently been discovered after several searches. 14 00:03:00,598 --> 00:03:06,479 As this journey has been undertaken with your support and for your benefit... 15 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:10,524 I take the liberty of dedicating this description to you. 16 00:03:24,497 --> 00:03:27,374 Based on a true story 17 00:03:37,343 --> 00:03:40,220 The boy... - Which boy? 18 00:03:43,641 --> 00:03:46,894 The mayor's son. 19 00:03:46,894 --> 00:03:49,480 Oh, him. 20 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,525 His name is Pieter Cornelis? 21 00:03:52,525 --> 00:03:55,736 PC, yes. What about him? 22 00:03:56,696 --> 00:03:59,823 Do you make love to him too, as you...? 23 00:04:02,076 --> 00:04:05,204 He writes poems for me. 24 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:09,167 In French, I suppose. - Yes. 25 00:04:09,167 --> 00:04:10,417 And in Latin. 26 00:04:18,843 --> 00:04:21,094 Why don't you write me poems? 27 00:04:23,806 --> 00:04:25,682 About what? 28 00:04:27,977 --> 00:04:29,519 About this? 29 00:04:38,154 --> 00:04:39,906 It's the verger. 30 00:04:39,906 --> 00:04:42,575 Hey, little verger! 31 00:04:42,575 --> 00:04:45,536 Symen, come here. 32 00:04:45,536 --> 00:04:46,661 Silly... 33 00:04:48,581 --> 00:04:51,209 Symen is as deaf as a post. 34 00:04:51,209 --> 00:04:53,001 You know that. 35 00:04:57,215 --> 00:04:59,008 It's such a pity... 36 00:04:59,008 --> 00:05:01,844 you have no money... 37 00:05:01,844 --> 00:05:04,221 no family... 38 00:05:06,015 --> 00:05:09,017 Gerrit 'no one's son' de Veer. 39 00:05:13,022 --> 00:05:16,066 My father will never approve marrying you. 40 00:05:18,611 --> 00:05:21,446 Your father can't do without me. 41 00:05:23,282 --> 00:05:25,785 I do everything for him. 42 00:05:25,785 --> 00:05:28,704 You take his messages. 43 00:05:28,704 --> 00:05:31,123 I'm his assistant. 44 00:05:31,123 --> 00:05:33,458 Messenger boy. 45 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:47,180 Soon I'll have money. 46 00:05:48,266 --> 00:05:51,560 When I come back, I'll have money. 47 00:05:56,274 --> 00:05:58,066 You don't mean that? 48 00:06:01,779 --> 00:06:05,616 You're no sailor. - I don't care. 49 00:06:05,616 --> 00:06:08,994 I'm going anyway. - Around the North? 50 00:06:12,623 --> 00:06:13,748 Yes... 51 00:06:19,213 --> 00:06:21,882 and when I come back I'll be rich. 52 00:06:26,679 --> 00:06:31,183 In this way, our people, with God's help... 53 00:06:31,183 --> 00:06:36,856 has thrown off the yoke of the Spanish occupier... 54 00:06:36,856 --> 00:06:41,235 and demanded its freedom. 55 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:44,155 He granted us... 56 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:48,576 oceans to sail... 57 00:06:48,576 --> 00:06:52,121 continents to discover... 58 00:06:52,121 --> 00:06:57,919 He granted us a spirit of enterprise... 59 00:06:57,919 --> 00:07:00,922 a lust for adventure. 60 00:07:00,922 --> 00:07:04,884 Leaders such as Willem Barentsz... 61 00:07:04,884 --> 00:07:09,930 or Jacob van Heemskerck, who is present here... 62 00:07:12,141 --> 00:07:16,020 are determined this time... 63 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:21,734 to find and open the passage of fortune to the Indies for us. 64 00:07:21,734 --> 00:07:28,324 Men like them, and may our prayers accompany them on their voyages... 65 00:07:28,324 --> 00:07:31,993 will bring riches to our poor... 66 00:07:32,912 --> 00:07:35,331 and poverty stricken people. 67 00:07:35,331 --> 00:07:39,710 And in this way also peace... 68 00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:42,338 and wealth... 69 00:07:42,338 --> 00:07:44,089 for everyone. 70 00:07:48,135 --> 00:07:52,306 The blessing of God descends... 71 00:07:52,306 --> 00:07:54,849 on our very young Republic. 72 00:07:55,810 --> 00:07:58,437 Go hence in peace... 73 00:07:58,437 --> 00:08:00,772 Amen... 74 00:08:04,986 --> 00:08:06,111 Papa... 75 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:09,948 You were wonderful. 76 00:08:11,325 --> 00:08:14,620 A wonderful story, minister. 77 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:18,833 A story that will help us cope with the cold. 78 00:08:18,833 --> 00:08:24,296 I don't think that cold will be your greatest enemy, Jacob, rather... 79 00:08:24,296 --> 00:08:26,840 a lack of warmth. 80 00:08:27,925 --> 00:08:30,969 And, Jacob... 81 00:08:32,179 --> 00:08:36,475 You are a fine captain... 82 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:39,812 but listen to Barentsz. 83 00:08:39,812 --> 00:08:41,438 He keeps it all up here. 84 00:09:27,943 --> 00:09:30,278 Did you have... 85 00:09:37,870 --> 00:09:40,121 An astrolabe... 86 00:10:02,812 --> 00:10:04,854 What do you need it for? 87 00:10:05,898 --> 00:10:08,067 For measuring star time. 88 00:10:08,067 --> 00:10:11,487 Tell me... - Copernicus' constant? 89 00:10:11,487 --> 00:10:15,741 The constant is 9.83. 90 00:10:15,741 --> 00:10:19,912 That's the relation between the Earth and the Moon. 91 00:10:19,912 --> 00:10:25,209 The constant 2.95 refers to the relation Earth-Sun... 92 00:10:25,209 --> 00:10:28,295 Sun-Mercury, Sun-Venus... 93 00:10:28,295 --> 00:10:30,630 Sun-Mars and Sun-Jupiter. Zon-Mars en Zon-Jupiter. 94 00:10:31,507 --> 00:10:33,341 Good. 95 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:40,306 And this... 96 00:10:41,142 --> 00:10:43,227 is for Mr Barentsz. 97 00:10:43,227 --> 00:10:45,395 Guard it... - with my own life. 98 00:10:54,155 --> 00:10:57,073 Have you had time to think? 99 00:10:59,410 --> 00:11:01,119 I have to do this. 100 00:11:19,263 --> 00:11:23,224 Make sure you hand it over personally. 101 00:11:31,901 --> 00:11:33,234 Thank you. 102 00:12:28,457 --> 00:12:31,334 Oene, stop or I'll stick it up your ass! 103 00:12:32,586 --> 00:12:35,338 But I still make the music. 104 00:12:43,180 --> 00:12:46,349 He's asleep. Our Jantje is asleep. 105 00:12:48,310 --> 00:12:52,730 Wait, wait! Jantje is thirsty. Here it comes. 106 00:12:55,943 --> 00:12:58,569 Jantje stinks of berry rum! 107 00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:04,200 Stop it! - Jantje stinks and we're proud of it. 108 00:13:08,747 --> 00:13:11,207 I'm looking for Barentsz. 109 00:13:13,711 --> 00:13:17,214 It's not about the voyage, boy... 110 00:13:17,214 --> 00:13:19,215 it's about coming home. 111 00:13:20,092 --> 00:13:21,759 Remember that. 112 00:13:28,183 --> 00:13:29,434 Men, a land crab! 113 00:13:30,561 --> 00:13:34,647 Never mind, darling. As long as there's a mast on you! 114 00:13:39,445 --> 00:13:48,661 We've got Placius' slave! Claes! Claes! 115 00:14:37,378 --> 00:14:41,465 I am Gerrit de Veer and I came from the Reverend Plancius. 116 00:14:41,465 --> 00:14:43,592 Well, Gerrit de Veer... 117 00:14:43,592 --> 00:14:45,469 Come closer. 118 00:14:45,469 --> 00:14:48,221 What has our patron given us? 119 00:14:49,306 --> 00:14:52,809 I have to give it to Barentsz personally. 120 00:15:07,282 --> 00:15:09,492 I want to ask you something. 121 00:15:11,036 --> 00:15:12,871 I really want to go along. 122 00:15:12,871 --> 00:15:15,832 On the expedition? - Yes. 123 00:15:17,876 --> 00:15:21,505 You hear that, Willem? Tired of life? 124 00:15:21,505 --> 00:15:25,133 A fight with your father? - I have no parents. 125 00:15:26,552 --> 00:15:28,429 That's an astrolabe... 126 00:15:28,429 --> 00:15:30,514 made by a maker in Louvain. 127 00:15:30,514 --> 00:15:32,265 It uses stars to show the time. 128 00:15:37,438 --> 00:15:38,771 I have a letter. 129 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:48,240 I am good at reading and want to be a writer. 130 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,534 I want to write about my voyages. 131 00:15:50,534 --> 00:15:53,454 Writer? What use is a writer on a ship? 132 00:15:53,454 --> 00:15:57,958 All great explorers have a writer on board. 133 00:15:57,958 --> 00:15:59,793 All of them? 134 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:03,672 They report on the voyage in a book and they become famous. 135 00:16:03,672 --> 00:16:05,883 Christopher Columbus? - Yes. 136 00:16:05,883 --> 00:16:09,094 Vasco da Gama? - Alvaro Velho. 137 00:16:09,094 --> 00:16:10,762 Mr Barentsz... 138 00:16:10,762 --> 00:16:13,390 Did you ask Mayor Hooft to come? 139 00:16:13,390 --> 00:16:14,933 Well, men... 140 00:16:14,933 --> 00:16:18,395 Preparing for the voyage? - Tradition. 141 00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:21,773 The men are enjoying themselves. - I noticed. 142 00:16:21,773 --> 00:16:25,569 Good men. - Enough for the Amsterdam bonus. 143 00:16:25,569 --> 00:16:29,698 Good enough to open the route to fortune, for Amsterdam. 144 00:16:29,698 --> 00:16:32,743 And the Republic. 145 00:16:32,743 --> 00:16:35,161 I came to wish you a good voyage. 146 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:44,879 Wine. 147 00:16:45,797 --> 00:16:47,925 Are you deaf? 148 00:16:47,925 --> 00:16:51,845 One order is enough for Van Heemskerck's men. 149 00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:53,722 Wine! 150 00:16:53,722 --> 00:16:56,766 We can't refuse the great Plancius. 151 00:16:59,478 --> 00:17:02,230 This young man will make us famous. 152 00:17:03,607 --> 00:17:05,483 At your service, captain. 153 00:17:12,032 --> 00:17:14,493 Take this young man with you. 154 00:17:14,493 --> 00:17:16,954 Keep him away from my daughter. 155 00:17:16,954 --> 00:17:19,373 Make a man of him... 156 00:17:19,373 --> 00:17:21,166 OI'... 157 00:17:21,166 --> 00:17:23,584 feed him to the white bears. 158 00:18:16,054 --> 00:18:17,430 Catharina... 159 00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:24,479 No don't open it! Silly you! 160 00:18:24,479 --> 00:18:26,315 Catharina... 161 00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:29,651 I promise that when I return from China... 162 00:18:29,651 --> 00:18:33,530 Japan and India, I'll bring you beautiful things. 163 00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:36,115 Not important. - And the bonus? 164 00:18:39,286 --> 00:18:42,747 The voyage isn't important. Returning is. 165 00:18:44,041 --> 00:18:47,502 Please wait for me and beat off the rich kids! 166 00:18:47,502 --> 00:18:48,711 Wait for me. 167 00:19:03,602 --> 00:19:05,770 Sprat... are you still coming? 168 00:19:07,356 --> 00:19:10,316 Stop twiddling. Hurry. You're the last. 169 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:10,376 Come on, I'll help you. 170 00:20:12,713 --> 00:20:15,923 Here you are, first-class accommodation. 171 00:20:16,842 --> 00:20:18,844 Take a seat. 172 00:20:18,844 --> 00:20:20,845 Can you manage? 173 00:20:31,481 --> 00:20:33,525 You are Gerrit, aren't you? 174 00:20:33,525 --> 00:20:34,984 You're a writer. 175 00:20:37,529 --> 00:20:39,697 Get out. Get out. 176 00:20:52,544 --> 00:20:54,378 Come with me. 177 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:56,922 Come on. 178 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:00,426 Yep. - Sit down. 179 00:21:14,941 --> 00:21:17,067 All hands on deck! 180 00:21:27,037 --> 00:21:30,665 What is that landlubber doing here? 181 00:21:30,665 --> 00:21:31,999 No idea. 182 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,095 On deck, sprat! 183 00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:47,223 The captain doesn't like latecomers. 184 00:21:50,727 --> 00:21:53,605 There are two ways to get to India. 185 00:21:53,605 --> 00:21:59,027 To the south, via Portugal. We're not welcome there; it's Spanish now. 186 00:21:59,027 --> 00:22:02,906 Then further south round the Cape of Good Hope 187 00:22:02,906 --> 00:22:05,700 Around Africa... - Madagascar. 188 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:09,704 Madagascar... we have an expert here. - Show off. 189 00:22:09,704 --> 00:22:15,252 The other way is round the North. It's hard for a couple of weeks... 190 00:22:15,252 --> 00:22:17,879 A warm coat and God's blessing. 191 00:22:17,879 --> 00:22:21,007 And the right route through the ice. 192 00:22:21,007 --> 00:22:27,222 An expedition was certainly never so well organised. We have everything. 193 00:22:27,222 --> 00:22:33,645 We have the best maps, a hold full of textiles, a clock for China's Emperor... 194 00:22:33,645 --> 00:22:36,648 and gifts to do business in Japan. 195 00:22:36,648 --> 00:22:41,027 Once we're there, it's only a couple of days away. 196 00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:44,322 Then we'll be in the marvelous Indies. 197 00:22:44,322 --> 00:22:48,201 We'll forget the cold under the tropical sun. 198 00:22:48,201 --> 00:22:51,913 With a woman on each arm. 199 00:22:51,913 --> 00:22:54,207 Rules on board the ship... 200 00:22:54,207 --> 00:22:57,210 Blasphemy is not allowed. 201 00:22:57,210 --> 00:23:01,214 Theft is forbidden. Keep off other people's things. 202 00:23:01,214 --> 00:23:03,717 No fighting on this ship. 203 00:23:03,717 --> 00:23:06,845 It will be punished and harshly. 204 00:23:06,845 --> 00:23:12,017 Discipline is most important on board and then comes speed. 205 00:23:12,017 --> 00:23:14,102 Remember the bonus. 206 00:23:14,102 --> 00:23:17,230 One more thing: you are warned... 207 00:23:17,230 --> 00:23:21,985 I don't want to see the Virgin Mary or rosaries. 208 00:23:21,985 --> 00:23:25,739 Or any other papist frills. 209 00:23:25,739 --> 00:23:28,825 We've had enough with the Spanish. 210 00:23:28,825 --> 00:23:31,577 Men, shout hurray for the captain. - Hurray! 211 00:23:36,958 --> 00:23:41,004 On 16 May 1596... 212 00:23:41,004 --> 00:23:45,759 on the orders of the States General and Prince Maurits of Orange... 213 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:49,387 our ship set sail through the Wargat Straits... 214 00:23:49,387 --> 00:23:53,266 to sail to the kingdoms of Cathay and China. 215 00:23:53,266 --> 00:23:56,685 And to the East Indies. 216 00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:03,109 The jibe! 217 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:05,904 You forgot to brace the clew line!! 218 00:24:05,904 --> 00:24:10,325 No, over the top! - Over the topsail. 219 00:24:10,325 --> 00:24:12,701 No the tether over the halyard. 220 00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:26,006 And then the tether over the halyard. 221 00:24:29,010 --> 00:24:31,428 Look at him with his quill. 222 00:24:33,390 --> 00:24:35,891 You don't need that here at sea. 223 00:24:37,185 --> 00:24:39,269 You're not going to write here are you? 224 00:24:40,313 --> 00:24:43,441 Dear Oene, my friend... 225 00:24:43,441 --> 00:24:47,404 Would your honour be so kind as to lower the mainsail? 226 00:24:47,404 --> 00:24:50,281 This because of the approaching storm. 227 00:24:50,281 --> 00:24:53,201 And please answer by tomorrow. 228 00:24:53,201 --> 00:24:55,619 Yours sincerely, your captain. 229 00:24:57,789 --> 00:25:00,207 Writing is for lords and masters. 230 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:04,086 And for Gerrit, of course. 231 00:25:06,381 --> 00:25:08,967 I'd like to write to. 232 00:25:08,967 --> 00:25:11,928 What for, boy? - And what? 233 00:25:11,928 --> 00:25:14,139 I want to write my name. - Jan! 234 00:25:14,139 --> 00:25:17,225 It's a very ordinary name. 235 00:25:17,225 --> 00:25:20,687 It's a deadly ordinary name. 236 00:25:20,687 --> 00:25:22,438 But it is mine. 237 00:25:25,734 --> 00:25:27,694 Gerrit? 238 00:25:27,694 --> 00:25:29,737 Pen, paper. Come with me. 239 00:26:09,277 --> 00:26:10,986 Here. 240 00:26:11,988 --> 00:26:13,530 Sit over here. 241 00:26:15,784 --> 00:26:18,078 I don't want to hear you. 242 00:26:18,078 --> 00:26:21,581 I just want to hear your pen on paper. 243 00:26:21,581 --> 00:26:24,708 Write down everything that is said. 244 00:26:31,174 --> 00:26:33,176 Where were we? 245 00:26:33,176 --> 00:26:35,762 Plancius says that... 246 00:26:35,762 --> 00:26:40,225 38 degrees... - I propose that the route... 247 00:26:40,225 --> 00:26:43,186 10 June 1596. 248 00:26:43,186 --> 00:26:49,234 With a north-easterly wind, we're sailing north north-west. 249 00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:53,446 It's almost a month since we left Holland. 250 00:26:53,446 --> 00:26:57,242 We pass a medium-sized island to port. 251 00:26:57,242 --> 00:27:03,581 The captain decides to anchor and go ashore looking for fresh provisions... 252 00:27:03,581 --> 00:27:06,334 before we head for the cold. 253 00:27:06,334 --> 00:27:08,795 The coasts are deserted. 254 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:13,007 We are explorers entering a new world. 255 00:27:13,007 --> 00:27:16,177 Look up there, men. Fresh meat. 256 00:27:16,177 --> 00:27:20,223 They're parrot crossbills, we used to call them twites. 257 00:27:20,223 --> 00:27:22,224 Jan, you're the lightest. 258 00:27:27,272 --> 00:27:29,274 Little writer... 259 00:27:29,274 --> 00:27:30,899 How about you? 260 00:27:33,153 --> 00:27:35,070 Claes, come on. 261 00:28:05,643 --> 00:28:07,102 Birds. 262 00:28:14,277 --> 00:28:16,111 Janfle! 263 00:28:43,514 --> 00:28:46,976 11 June 1596. 264 00:28:46,976 --> 00:28:50,939 Every sailor in Amsterdam wanted to join this voyage. 265 00:28:50,939 --> 00:28:54,984 A fortune awaits beyond the horizon. 266 00:28:54,984 --> 00:28:58,196 The men call themselves the chosen. 267 00:28:58,196 --> 00:29:00,531 But why were they chosen? 268 00:29:00,531 --> 00:29:04,661 Why? None of the men have something to return to. 269 00:29:04,661 --> 00:29:07,080 None have a wife or children. 270 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,582 No one has a home. Apart from me. 271 00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:25,098 We leave the island and sail north on a westerly wind. 272 00:29:25,098 --> 00:29:29,393 Late that evening, the island is 16 miles behind us. 273 00:29:30,353 --> 00:29:33,939 Now there's only open sea. 274 00:30:25,616 --> 00:30:26,742 Claes... 275 00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:29,494 give it back. 276 00:30:31,247 --> 00:30:32,497 Give it back. 277 00:31:31,557 --> 00:31:35,269 Make him taste the blood! 278 00:31:35,269 --> 00:31:37,188 Come on then. 279 00:31:37,188 --> 00:31:38,480 Hold him under. 280 00:31:39,524 --> 00:31:41,191 Hold him under! 281 00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:53,537 Head in, head in! 282 00:31:56,457 --> 00:31:58,041 Come on, boys. 283 00:32:07,552 --> 00:32:08,427 Claes! 284 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:15,684 Stop it! 285 00:32:22,859 --> 00:32:26,863 What's going on, Claes? - He stole by book from my chest. 286 00:32:26,863 --> 00:32:28,196 Shut up, Gerrit. 287 00:32:29,532 --> 00:32:32,868 I thought he was asleep. I didn't want to wake him. 288 00:32:38,499 --> 00:32:40,543 Claes... 289 00:32:40,543 --> 00:32:45,380 How often have I told you not to get worked up like this? 290 00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:51,554 Possessions on board are sacred, Claes. All sailors know that. 291 00:32:51,554 --> 00:32:54,139 You know the punishment. 292 00:32:56,434 --> 00:32:59,769 The captain will tell you what will happen. 293 00:33:02,565 --> 00:33:05,651 Everyone knows the rules on board? 294 00:33:05,651 --> 00:33:08,487 Tomorrow morning: The widow! 295 00:33:18,956 --> 00:33:20,874 Traitor. 296 00:33:25,004 --> 00:33:26,838 Clear up the blood. 297 00:33:46,150 --> 00:33:51,572 No one can survive 2 or 3 minutes in that ice-cold water. 298 00:33:51,572 --> 00:33:53,491 It's your decision. 299 00:33:53,491 --> 00:33:56,869 Claes will drown. - Claes is strong. 300 00:33:56,869 --> 00:33:58,829 He'll drown. 301 00:33:58,829 --> 00:34:01,290 He won't make it. 302 00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:05,585 Then reverse the decision. - I can't. You decided for me. 303 00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:14,971 You're the captain. - Don't keep telling me that. 304 00:34:14,971 --> 00:34:20,309 One of us is captain, it's not me. - I'm captain and they want to believe you. 305 00:34:20,309 --> 00:34:22,770 We can't let it pass. 306 00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:26,399 Before you know, it'll be like three years ago. 307 00:34:26,399 --> 00:34:28,400 We had to hang a couple. 308 00:34:31,612 --> 00:34:33,948 We should have whipped him 309 00:34:33,948 --> 00:34:36,950 He could take 10 or even 20. 310 00:34:39,870 --> 00:34:41,914 You know, Jacob... 311 00:34:41,914 --> 00:34:45,709 a weak captain benefits no one. 312 00:35:12,528 --> 00:35:15,822 In the name of the Republic! 313 00:35:45,311 --> 00:35:46,728 Pull! 314 00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:09,834 Come on, pull! 315 00:36:10,795 --> 00:36:12,671 He's stuck! 316 00:36:22,723 --> 00:36:24,057 He won't make it! 317 00:38:28,474 --> 00:38:31,727 You won't put this in your book, will you, little man? 318 00:38:31,727 --> 00:38:33,437 Yes I will. 319 00:38:33,437 --> 00:38:35,855 I know exactly how to write it down. 320 00:38:40,444 --> 00:38:43,322 Claes was the strongest man on board. 321 00:38:43,322 --> 00:38:47,493 And everyone was afraid of him. Everyone! 322 00:38:47,493 --> 00:38:50,245 Apart from the captain and Barentsz. 323 00:38:51,455 --> 00:38:53,791 And Claes knew all too well... 324 00:38:53,791 --> 00:38:56,627 that minor infringements... 325 00:38:56,627 --> 00:38:59,588 could be punished severely. 326 00:38:59,588 --> 00:39:02,049 He knew that all too well. 327 00:39:02,049 --> 00:39:05,928 But Claes happened to be Claes... 328 00:39:05,928 --> 00:39:08,596 and Claes wasn't afraid of the devil. 329 00:39:30,244 --> 00:39:34,623 Gerrit de Veer - he's writing about me! 330 00:39:34,623 --> 00:39:36,040 Gerrit the quill! 331 00:39:37,918 --> 00:39:40,545 One big hurray for Claes! - Hurray! 332 00:39:43,299 --> 00:39:45,800 And one big hurray for the quill! - Hurray! 333 00:40:03,694 --> 00:40:05,987 4 July 1596. 334 00:40:06,864 --> 00:40:09,408 We sail east and north. 335 00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:11,201 We haven't seen any ice. 336 00:40:11,201 --> 00:40:14,997 That's strange because we're so far north. 337 00:40:14,997 --> 00:40:20,252 The men withdraw increasingly into their fixed routine 338 00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:23,088 We go west with a northerly wind and... 339 00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:27,926 at about five o'clock southeast with a north-easterly wind. 340 00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:35,976 Land! Men! Land! 341 00:40:35,976 --> 00:40:37,644 Land ahoy! 342 00:40:58,624 --> 00:40:59,916 Iseeland. 343 00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:05,797 What you think it is? - I don't know. 344 00:41:09,051 --> 00:41:11,427 It's Nova Zembla, men. 345 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:16,432 It's Nova Zembla 346 00:41:18,227 --> 00:41:20,604 The New Land. 347 00:41:20,604 --> 00:41:25,192 Tomorrow we'll investigate. It means China is close by. 348 00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:28,069 China is within our reach. 349 00:41:30,781 --> 00:41:33,366 A tot for everyone to celebrate. 350 00:41:48,382 --> 00:41:50,759 Well done Jacob. 351 00:41:50,759 --> 00:41:53,094 Keep them motivated. 352 00:41:54,430 --> 00:41:56,931 Tomorrow we'll explore. 353 00:41:57,975 --> 00:41:59,934 Nova Zembla... 354 00:42:05,024 --> 00:42:08,652 16 August 1596. 355 00:42:08,652 --> 00:42:12,948 Eight of us row to the mainland of Nova Zembla. 356 00:42:12,948 --> 00:42:17,535 We pull the sloop dry and climb to the top to get the lie of the land. 357 00:42:23,917 --> 00:42:27,379 The land is much bigger than indicated on the map. 358 00:42:27,379 --> 00:42:31,924 We start to suspect the land will block our passage. 359 00:42:34,344 --> 00:42:38,348 A little later, we see open water in the southeast. 360 00:42:38,348 --> 00:42:42,769 We return to our ship to tell the news to Willem Barentsz. 361 00:42:46,815 --> 00:42:50,485 This northern route goes straight through theice. 362 00:42:51,361 --> 00:42:53,821 You want to follow it, Willem? 363 00:42:55,949 --> 00:43:00,120 It's crazy. It won't happen. - The ice is temporary. 364 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,333 Plancius assured us, based on his last calculations... 365 00:43:04,333 --> 00:43:08,795 Rubbish. Plancius knows as much as he knows. 366 00:43:13,592 --> 00:43:20,557 This island isn't mapped right. It's much further west. You want more examples? 367 00:43:20,557 --> 00:43:24,269 Plancius knows more than Portugal and Spain together. 368 00:43:24,269 --> 00:43:27,188 What's wrong with you? - I'll tell you. 369 00:43:28,941 --> 00:43:32,903 It's my ship and I'm the one who decides the route. 370 00:43:32,903 --> 00:43:36,865 Write that down. - And something else. 371 00:43:36,865 --> 00:43:41,370 I don't want to contribute to your third failure in a row. 372 00:43:41,370 --> 00:43:43,037 Write that down too. 373 00:43:53,215 --> 00:43:54,465 Gerrit. 374 00:43:55,634 --> 00:43:57,051 Up here. 375 00:44:05,936 --> 00:44:08,105 What did they say? 376 00:44:08,105 --> 00:44:12,316 What will they do? - You were there? What took so long? 377 00:44:24,163 --> 00:44:25,830 Nova Zembla. 378 00:44:26,665 --> 00:44:28,876 Here. 379 00:44:28,876 --> 00:44:30,459 We are here. 380 00:44:32,588 --> 00:44:35,673 What's up here? - Right up north? 381 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,218 No one knows. 382 00:44:38,218 --> 00:44:41,054 Barentsz says this is the route. 383 00:44:41,054 --> 00:44:44,182 But Van Heemskerck wants to go this way. 384 00:44:45,601 --> 00:44:48,145 They don't agree. - Why? 385 00:44:48,145 --> 00:44:52,148 Van Heemskerck thinks he has a better route than Plancius. 386 00:44:53,192 --> 00:44:57,570 We'll reach the ice too soon. They have to find a new route. 387 00:45:15,923 --> 00:45:17,465 Look at the stars. 388 00:45:19,468 --> 00:45:21,677 Leo and Orion... 389 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,890 The giant's right shoulder. 390 00:45:27,267 --> 00:45:31,563 "Always watch Orion's belt," the minister says. 391 00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:35,484 They are three stars close together. - Yes, there. 392 00:45:35,484 --> 00:45:39,111 Mintaka, Alnitak and Alnilam. 393 00:45:40,447 --> 00:45:42,323 Very good. 394 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,995 Very useful, some knowledge of astronomy. 395 00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:48,579 You never know. 396 00:45:50,749 --> 00:45:55,378 In a few hundred years, people will travel between the stars. 397 00:46:07,766 --> 00:46:13,188 Columbus was given tobacco as a gift by the Indians. Did you know that? 398 00:46:13,188 --> 00:46:17,526 He thought it stank and threw it overboard, but one sailor... 399 00:46:17,526 --> 00:46:21,697 a wayward sailor called Roderigo kept some. 400 00:46:21,697 --> 00:46:25,366 Later he walked the streets in Spain smoking a pipe. 401 00:46:27,661 --> 00:46:31,707 People thought he was a devil with all that smoke. 402 00:46:31,707 --> 00:46:34,166 They threw him in jail. 403 00:46:36,253 --> 00:46:39,630 He was in jail for seven years. 404 00:46:42,342 --> 00:46:45,386 It's not always better to show off. 405 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,448 I want you to read it out loud. 406 00:47:07,826 --> 00:47:10,579 Everything you wrote. 407 00:47:10,579 --> 00:47:13,456 You have time? - Start at the beginning. 408 00:47:15,292 --> 00:47:17,836 Read it yourself, Vos... 409 00:47:17,836 --> 00:47:21,672 Vos can't read. - Shut up and go to sleep, Claes. 410 00:47:24,509 --> 00:47:31,266 You read it out loud and start with what Van Heemskerck and Barentsz talked about. 411 00:47:31,266 --> 00:47:33,101 Why should I? 412 00:47:33,101 --> 00:47:35,479 Because we asked you. 413 00:47:35,479 --> 00:47:37,021 My friend and I. 414 00:47:43,737 --> 00:47:47,031 How do you know that I'm reading what's written in here? 415 00:47:48,283 --> 00:47:51,202 Vos, you're on watch. Get on deck. 416 00:47:56,875 --> 00:47:59,294 I know all about you, sprat! 417 00:47:59,294 --> 00:48:01,797 You work for the Spanish. 418 00:48:01,797 --> 00:48:07,219 And you'll tell them everything we face on this voyage, won't you? 419 00:48:07,219 --> 00:48:09,512 Vos, come on. 420 00:48:19,898 --> 00:48:23,276 18 August 1596. 421 00:48:23,276 --> 00:48:27,739 We prepare to take Willem Barentsz' route. 422 00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:31,493 We want to sail around the north of Nova Zembla. 423 00:48:31,493 --> 00:48:34,663 But the current there is so treacherous... 424 00:48:34,663 --> 00:48:38,707 but after many vain attempts, we return to anchor. 425 00:49:34,681 --> 00:49:37,893 The first contact with the ice... 426 00:49:37,893 --> 00:49:40,394 was 11 days later than expected. 427 00:49:43,190 --> 00:49:44,607 You have that? 428 00:49:46,318 --> 00:49:49,195 Add the date. 429 00:49:54,451 --> 00:49:56,411 It's provisional. 430 00:49:56,411 --> 00:49:59,789 This has nothing to do with notes, rough sketches. 431 00:49:59,789 --> 00:50:03,960 Here. This is the bill of lading. That's important. 432 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,838 They don't match. - That's irrelevant. 433 00:50:06,838 --> 00:50:11,384 It's official. black-and-white with your signature. 434 00:50:11,384 --> 00:50:13,594 Jacob van Heemskerck. 435 00:50:16,431 --> 00:50:20,435 This mentions more considerably more provisions. 436 00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:24,147 A few thoughts. Plancius' signature. 437 00:50:24,147 --> 00:50:26,607 He had some ideas, in case. 438 00:50:29,945 --> 00:50:35,408 We're way too heavy, Willem. That makes us vulnerable deep in the ice. 439 00:50:35,408 --> 00:50:38,702 Why do we have all the extra provisions? 440 00:50:47,462 --> 00:50:50,381 27 August 1596. 441 00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:54,468 The weather is calm and clear. 442 00:50:56,429 --> 00:50:59,391 We've reached the north of Nova Zembla. 443 00:50:59,391 --> 00:51:04,270 We seek shelter from the ice and call this bay Ice Harbor. 444 00:52:13,048 --> 00:52:14,923 And now for a story. 445 00:52:16,384 --> 00:52:18,344 Who feels like a story? 446 00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:21,348 Something real. 447 00:52:21,348 --> 00:52:23,057 Something from life. 448 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,313 I need one person to help me. 449 00:52:28,313 --> 00:52:30,773 Someone has to walk with me. 450 00:52:33,693 --> 00:52:36,820 I'll go with Gerrit on a pub crawl. 451 00:52:38,490 --> 00:52:40,367 Yes. 452 00:52:40,367 --> 00:52:41,784 In Amsterdam. 453 00:52:42,786 --> 00:52:45,829 When we get back, we'll have earned a drink, haven't we? 454 00:52:47,749 --> 00:52:49,834 Where shall we start? 455 00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:52,795 On Zeedijk? - Take it easy. 456 00:53:03,765 --> 00:53:06,643 That's more like the place to end. 457 00:53:06,643 --> 00:53:09,479 Okay, we'll take it easy. 458 00:53:09,479 --> 00:53:11,188 Let's start on Damrak. 459 00:53:14,651 --> 00:53:17,111 We can look at the new ships. 460 00:53:18,446 --> 00:53:21,700 And we greet him and him... 461 00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:24,034 and we see who made it back. 462 00:53:30,375 --> 00:53:32,836 Then we'll go to the pharmacist. 463 00:53:32,836 --> 00:53:34,712 I'm feeling thirsty. 464 00:53:36,798 --> 00:53:41,009 And we stop at the Blue Grape for one. - Or two. 465 00:53:44,347 --> 00:53:46,181 Then we carry on... 466 00:53:47,517 --> 00:53:49,644 I have to get out! 467 00:53:49,644 --> 00:53:51,562 I have to get out! Out! 468 00:53:53,523 --> 00:53:55,399 Now shut up, dammit! 469 00:54:32,562 --> 00:54:35,482 Everything had been discussed. 470 00:54:35,482 --> 00:54:36,690 I thought 471 00:54:38,276 --> 00:54:40,987 Months of preparation... 472 00:54:40,987 --> 00:54:42,654 the route, finance... 473 00:54:43,782 --> 00:54:45,824 I thought it all figured. 474 00:54:49,954 --> 00:54:52,457 The negotiations in China. 475 00:54:52,457 --> 00:54:54,249 And then to the Indies. 476 00:54:56,544 --> 00:54:58,128 And the voyage back. 477 00:55:00,924 --> 00:55:02,591 But what happened? 478 00:55:05,303 --> 00:55:07,554 You and Plancius messed up. 479 00:55:09,641 --> 00:55:10,933 You conspired. 480 00:55:13,228 --> 00:55:17,648 Why is there so much more provisions on board than agreed? 481 00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:21,652 Why? 482 00:55:25,323 --> 00:55:30,119 Why didn't you involve me in your plan? - I told you that already. 483 00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:31,829 Just in case. 484 00:55:34,916 --> 00:55:37,459 And the other questions? 485 00:55:39,170 --> 00:55:41,630 You would have objected. 486 00:55:49,180 --> 00:55:50,681 What next? 487 00:55:52,308 --> 00:55:54,852 What d'you think will happen now? 488 00:55:56,062 --> 00:55:58,146 We'll spend the winter here. 489 00:55:59,023 --> 00:56:01,650 And you'll tell the men. 490 00:56:19,794 --> 00:56:22,630 We'll go ashore here... 491 00:56:22,630 --> 00:56:24,798 and spend the winter here. 492 00:56:25,717 --> 00:56:27,092 The whole winter. 493 00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:30,596 That's months and months. 494 00:56:32,348 --> 00:56:34,100 And the food? 495 00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:36,894 What about food? - It'll be rationed. 496 00:56:39,314 --> 00:56:41,774 There's enough on board. 497 00:56:41,774 --> 00:56:45,110 As long as everyone sticks to his ration. 498 00:56:46,863 --> 00:56:48,196 We'll manage. 499 00:56:49,574 --> 00:56:51,116 We're doomed. 500 00:56:52,827 --> 00:56:55,954 If anyone has a better plan, tell me. 501 00:57:05,715 --> 00:57:09,552 3 September 1596. 502 00:57:09,552 --> 00:57:12,847 The ice has pushed the ship back and forth. 503 00:57:12,847 --> 00:57:18,436 And under the pressure of the breaking ice it finally broke up. 504 00:57:18,436 --> 00:57:22,982 Our ship lost when faced with the might of nature. 505 00:57:22,982 --> 00:57:26,902 We lost but don't give up. 506 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,338 This was all I could find. 507 00:57:47,340 --> 00:57:49,175 Beans! 508 00:57:49,175 --> 00:57:51,219 What's the use of beans? 509 00:57:51,219 --> 00:57:55,889 I searched everywhere. - We need greens and fresh meat. 510 00:57:58,309 --> 00:58:01,228 And best of all is cochlearia. 511 00:58:02,689 --> 00:58:03,982 What? 512 00:58:03,982 --> 00:58:08,735 Scurvy grass. It's magic. You get over it in no time. 513 00:58:10,029 --> 00:58:12,323 But does it grow here? 514 00:58:12,323 --> 00:58:14,408 They say it does. - Let's look. 515 00:58:51,362 --> 00:58:53,114 You see those stars? 516 00:58:53,114 --> 00:58:55,658 And the very clear one? 517 00:58:55,658 --> 00:58:57,535 That's Orion. 518 00:58:57,535 --> 00:58:59,328 A hunter. 519 00:58:59,328 --> 00:59:01,288 The three stars beside it... 520 00:59:02,874 --> 00:59:05,793 is called the belt. The middle star... 521 00:59:05,793 --> 00:59:08,003 has the most beautiful name. 522 00:59:09,047 --> 00:59:10,255 What is it? 523 00:59:11,257 --> 00:59:13,551 Mintaka. 524 00:59:13,551 --> 00:59:15,386 Mintaka... 525 00:59:15,386 --> 00:59:17,304 The middle star. 526 00:59:22,268 --> 00:59:24,311 Yes, she loves that. 527 00:59:48,377 --> 00:59:50,129 What's wrong? 528 00:59:50,129 --> 00:59:51,713 A bear... 529 00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:01,891 Where is Oene? 530 01:00:01,891 --> 01:00:04,726 Get the guns. The guns! 531 01:00:15,238 --> 01:00:16,613 Come on then! 532 01:00:18,741 --> 01:00:20,200 Come on then! 533 01:00:27,834 --> 01:00:29,751 Mintaka! 534 01:00:31,337 --> 01:00:33,755 Mintaka! 535 01:00:56,487 --> 01:00:59,239 A nice name. Mintaka! 536 01:02:23,324 --> 01:02:26,618 Laurens is back where he belongs. 537 01:02:27,662 --> 01:02:29,871 To our Father's House. 538 01:02:30,873 --> 01:02:34,167 We know that's what he always wanted. 539 01:02:36,921 --> 01:02:41,384 This is the house that will protect us and offer safety. 540 01:02:41,384 --> 01:02:43,052 If God wills. 541 01:02:43,052 --> 01:02:45,638 We only want one thing. 542 01:02:45,638 --> 01:02:47,597 And that is to survive. 543 01:02:48,557 --> 01:02:51,352 Van Heemskerck is the captain. 544 01:02:51,352 --> 01:02:53,228 He remains the captain. 545 01:02:54,230 --> 01:02:57,065 But now he's a captain with no ship. 546 01:02:58,609 --> 01:03:02,780 If I look around me: 11 men and a bird. 547 01:03:02,780 --> 01:03:04,991 God... 548 01:03:04,991 --> 01:03:08,369 I'm jealous of the bird. 549 01:03:08,369 --> 01:03:11,037 If we all had two wings... 550 01:03:12,206 --> 01:03:14,666 we'd be in the Indies by now. 551 01:03:17,378 --> 01:03:23,259 We called it the Kept House, made from flotsam and the beams of our ship. 552 01:03:23,259 --> 01:03:27,221 The Kept House will protect and shelter us. 553 01:03:27,221 --> 01:03:29,347 If God wills. 554 01:03:35,313 --> 01:03:38,733 Soon there won't be any light. 555 01:03:38,733 --> 01:03:40,609 Why not? 556 01:03:40,609 --> 01:03:44,070 The light disappears for the whole winter. 557 01:03:48,034 --> 01:03:50,785 Not even God's light get's here. 558 01:04:47,301 --> 01:04:48,676 Gerrit... 559 01:04:50,262 --> 01:04:52,806 What's the bird's name? 560 01:04:53,891 --> 01:04:55,392 Mintaka. 561 01:04:57,103 --> 01:04:59,562 Mintaka, that was it. 562 01:05:05,736 --> 01:05:09,323 Did Barentsz know all this in advance? 563 01:05:09,323 --> 01:05:11,700 That we'd end up here? 564 01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:13,326 What do you mean? 565 01:05:15,204 --> 01:05:18,748 That's what Vos told us. 566 01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,883 I don't know, Claes. 567 01:05:27,883 --> 01:05:30,594 But if Barentsz knew... 568 01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:34,098 then he must also know how to get us out of here. 569 01:05:34,098 --> 01:05:36,349 And then? 570 01:05:37,435 --> 01:05:40,604 We'll sail to China and the Indies. 571 01:05:40,604 --> 01:05:45,525 And we'll buy a beautiful big golden cage for Mintaka. 572 01:05:47,361 --> 01:05:51,240 Maybe she'll start singing in the warmth. 573 01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:54,242 What she does now doesn't sound too good. 574 01:05:57,246 --> 01:05:59,415 That girlfriend of yours... 575 01:05:59,415 --> 01:06:01,250 Catharina... 576 01:06:01,250 --> 01:06:03,293 Can she sing? 577 01:06:07,214 --> 01:06:08,590 I don't know. 578 01:06:38,704 --> 01:06:41,749 I am Galatea... 579 01:06:41,749 --> 01:06:45,001 and I stand here among the planets. 580 01:06:47,588 --> 01:06:51,425 The most beautiful star in the universe. 581 01:06:51,425 --> 01:06:52,800 Thank you. 582 01:06:53,886 --> 01:06:55,595 Your father says that. 583 01:06:58,849 --> 01:07:01,310 He does? 584 01:07:01,310 --> 01:07:02,769 To you? 585 01:07:05,606 --> 01:07:07,607 Yes, the most beautiful. 586 01:07:08,609 --> 01:07:10,693 He never says that to me. 587 01:07:11,570 --> 01:07:13,821 And the farthest. 588 01:07:17,368 --> 01:07:21,871 Boy, my daughter is as far away from you as the sun. 589 01:07:23,832 --> 01:07:28,337 15 December 1596. 590 01:07:28,337 --> 01:07:31,257 Salted meat and salt herring. 591 01:07:31,257 --> 01:07:35,009 Half a pound of food per person per day. 592 01:07:38,556 --> 01:07:42,851 The stock of beer is frozen and almost finished. 593 01:07:42,851 --> 01:07:47,981 There are 17 hard round cheeses, but not enough to last till the New Year. 594 01:07:49,066 --> 01:07:53,028 We eat little and it's bitterly cold. 595 01:07:53,028 --> 01:07:56,740 The freezing cold is always there. 596 01:07:56,740 --> 01:07:59,076 But the worst thing... 597 01:07:59,076 --> 01:08:01,661 is the lack of warmth. 598 01:08:06,834 --> 01:08:08,376 Do you want me to leave? 599 01:08:09,545 --> 01:08:10,795 No... 600 01:08:12,923 --> 01:08:14,632 Who is Galatea? 601 01:08:16,677 --> 01:08:18,344 A statue... 602 01:08:19,888 --> 01:08:21,681 made of ivory. 603 01:08:24,852 --> 01:08:27,353 A statue that comes to life. 604 01:08:28,230 --> 01:08:29,439 Oh yes... 605 01:08:31,275 --> 01:08:34,319 I'll come back tomorrow. - No. 606 01:08:42,036 --> 01:08:44,370 Come into the light. 607 01:09:06,060 --> 01:09:08,479 He gave her a kiss. 608 01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,022 Then she came to life. 609 01:10:28,058 --> 01:10:29,600 Janfle. 610 01:10:30,644 --> 01:10:32,354 Janfle. 611 01:10:32,354 --> 01:10:34,647 MY Pipe, please. 612 01:10:54,376 --> 01:10:55,752 When it's gone... 613 01:11:00,257 --> 01:11:03,217 The skipper has smoked his last pipe. 614 01:11:08,140 --> 01:11:10,392 If you don't mind... 615 01:11:10,392 --> 01:11:12,977 then I'll close my eyes for a moment. 616 01:11:14,980 --> 01:11:17,649 Silence is golden. 617 01:11:17,649 --> 01:11:19,943 Sflence. 618 01:11:19,943 --> 01:11:22,404 Indeed... 619 01:11:22,404 --> 01:11:24,823 There they are. 620 01:11:24,823 --> 01:11:26,741 Nelly and the children. 621 01:11:30,496 --> 01:11:32,288 Don't quarrel, kids. 622 01:11:33,165 --> 01:11:35,209 Keep quiet. 623 01:11:35,209 --> 01:11:37,460 Papa's having a bath. 624 01:11:55,103 --> 01:11:57,522 We need fresh meat. 625 01:11:58,732 --> 01:12:00,983 A trap, for foxes. 626 01:12:42,776 --> 01:12:45,570 24 December 1596. 627 01:12:50,158 --> 01:12:53,119 The weather is calm on this Christmas Eve. 628 01:12:54,371 --> 01:12:59,835 We comfort ourselves with the thought that the sun has passed half way... 629 01:12:59,835 --> 01:13:03,963 and is on its way back to us to give us her light. 630 01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:08,760 We really yearned to see the sun. 631 01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:13,848 Without God's most beautiful creation, life is filled with misery. 632 01:13:21,982 --> 01:13:23,566 Not too big... 633 01:13:31,575 --> 01:13:34,160 Now close the A. 634 01:13:40,334 --> 01:13:43,337 You need to work on your N. 635 01:13:43,337 --> 01:13:46,131 The A is really good. 636 01:13:46,131 --> 01:13:48,966 You're talented. One more time. 637 01:13:50,761 --> 01:13:53,263 A friend of mine from the village... 638 01:13:53,263 --> 01:13:56,223 was called Bartolomeus Huidekoper. 639 01:13:57,809 --> 01:14:01,688 I bet you're glad that's not your name, Jantje. 640 01:14:01,688 --> 01:14:05,149 Bar to lo me us Hui de ko per. 641 01:15:04,918 --> 01:15:06,293 Van Raamsdonck! 642 01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:34,363 Table. 643 01:16:24,372 --> 01:16:26,499 I'll take him from the roof. 644 01:16:27,959 --> 01:16:29,418 Musket... 645 01:17:44,661 --> 01:17:48,081 21 March 1597. 646 01:17:48,081 --> 01:17:50,000 The cold is grueling. 647 01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:55,797 It looks like a bonus of the month of March, but that is my comfort. 648 01:17:55,797 --> 01:17:59,050 I know it can't last for ever. 649 01:17:59,050 --> 01:18:02,052 It will have to get warmer in the end. 650 01:18:09,394 --> 01:18:11,228 Soup. 651 01:18:24,117 --> 01:18:26,077 Gerrit... 652 01:18:26,077 --> 01:18:27,870 I have golden ducats. 653 01:18:28,830 --> 01:18:32,082 I want you to keep them for me, if I... 654 01:18:33,460 --> 01:18:35,502 if anything happens to me. 655 01:18:36,379 --> 01:18:38,339 No one must know. 656 01:18:42,177 --> 01:18:46,056 Really. I was to trade in China with them. 657 01:18:46,056 --> 01:18:49,225 It has to go back to Neeltje and the children. 658 01:18:50,352 --> 01:18:53,730 I don't want them thrown out of the house. 659 01:18:53,730 --> 01:18:57,983 We're continuing across the ice to the Indies. 660 01:19:00,195 --> 01:19:02,614 I'm not, Gerrit. 661 01:19:02,614 --> 01:19:03,906 I'm not. 662 01:19:06,701 --> 01:19:08,245 Gerrit. 663 01:19:08,245 --> 01:19:11,373 You have to do it. You have to lead them. 664 01:19:11,373 --> 01:19:14,334 Here... 665 01:19:14,334 --> 01:19:15,876 For you 666 01:19:39,359 --> 01:19:43,446 12 May 1597. 667 01:19:43,446 --> 01:19:48,201 Show me a beauty that exceeds hers. 668 01:19:48,201 --> 01:19:51,621 What other purpose has such beauty than to note... 669 01:19:51,621 --> 01:19:56,251 that she is nothing less than the most exquisite. 670 01:19:56,251 --> 01:19:59,420 You will never teach me ever to forget. 671 01:20:27,741 --> 01:20:30,452 For the Emperor of China... 672 01:20:30,452 --> 01:20:32,620 For the draughts... 673 01:20:32,620 --> 01:20:34,080 and the chimney. 674 01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,957 That's fine. Use it all. 675 01:21:15,663 --> 01:21:18,124 A little further on... 676 01:21:18,124 --> 01:21:20,335 is Jan Huygen. 677 01:21:20,335 --> 01:21:23,713 There are always Flemish regulars. 678 01:21:23,713 --> 01:21:25,799 We can't pass that by. 679 01:21:25,799 --> 01:21:28,467 There's always a familiar face. 680 01:21:30,136 --> 01:21:32,513 We have plenty of time. 681 01:21:35,016 --> 01:21:36,850 And plenty of money. 682 01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,359 Then I want to go to the baker... 683 01:21:44,359 --> 01:21:46,110 in Kalverstraat... 684 01:21:49,489 --> 01:21:51,698 for some currant bread. 685 01:21:55,787 --> 01:21:57,538 I want to go tomorrow... 686 01:21:59,332 --> 01:22:01,375 in Amsterdam. 687 01:22:02,460 --> 01:22:04,337 Tomorrow... 688 01:22:04,337 --> 01:22:06,755 We all do, Oene. 689 01:22:08,425 --> 01:22:10,300 We all do. 690 01:24:28,648 --> 01:24:30,399 Where is Jan? 691 01:25:40,678 --> 01:25:44,014 Jan ran away from the orphanage. 692 01:25:44,974 --> 01:25:50,355 The orphanage on Warmoestraat. He never wants to go back. 693 01:25:50,355 --> 01:25:52,356 He told me that. 694 01:25:53,983 --> 01:25:56,943 The sea was his father and mother. 695 01:26:00,281 --> 01:26:02,407 Jan went... 696 01:26:03,326 --> 01:26:06,578 wherever the wind and sea took him. 697 01:26:14,003 --> 01:26:20,300 Lord, watch over Jan. 698 01:27:47,138 --> 01:27:50,266 There's light. The light came back. 699 01:27:50,266 --> 01:27:53,686 Boy... - Clear light, radiant. 700 01:27:53,686 --> 01:27:55,605 Like the first day. 701 01:27:55,605 --> 01:27:57,440 Impossible. 702 01:27:57,440 --> 01:27:59,232 It's too early. 703 01:28:05,865 --> 01:28:07,949 Here... light! 704 01:28:09,452 --> 01:28:11,995 Like the first day of creation. 705 01:28:14,791 --> 01:28:17,794 Men, we locked ourselves up here. 706 01:28:17,794 --> 01:28:19,962 We were afraid of darkness. 707 01:28:19,962 --> 01:28:21,713 But that has gone. 708 01:28:22,715 --> 01:28:26,427 The light came back. We have to wake up and go. 709 01:28:26,427 --> 01:28:29,179 What do you want us to do? Swim? 710 01:28:30,556 --> 01:28:32,517 Gerrit is right. 711 01:28:32,517 --> 01:28:34,894 You have to go. - We all have to go. 712 01:28:34,894 --> 01:28:38,189 How? I only hear words. - We still have sloops. 713 01:28:38,189 --> 01:28:39,649 They're wrecked. 714 01:28:39,649 --> 01:28:43,194 Then we'll repair them for the journey. 715 01:28:43,194 --> 01:28:45,279 You want to row? 716 01:28:45,279 --> 01:28:48,908 We'll find open water and row. - It's crazy. 717 01:28:48,908 --> 01:28:51,452 In the frozen sea? - We'll row. 718 01:28:51,452 --> 01:28:53,955 If it blows, we'll hoist a sail. 719 01:28:53,955 --> 01:28:58,459 It's crazy to stay here. - Who's in charge? 720 01:28:58,459 --> 01:29:01,546 Who will decide the route? 721 01:29:01,546 --> 01:29:04,340 The stars... 722 01:29:04,340 --> 01:29:06,843 Yes... 723 01:29:06,843 --> 01:29:09,094 But who will lead us home? 724 01:29:10,596 --> 01:29:13,015 Van Heemskerck? 725 01:29:13,015 --> 01:29:14,976 Or Barentsz? 726 01:29:14,976 --> 01:29:17,186 Or Professor Herring? 727 01:29:17,186 --> 01:29:22,315 He knows everything on his first voyage? Jantje was more experienced, dammit. 728 01:29:25,069 --> 01:29:27,572 I can read maps. 729 01:29:27,572 --> 01:29:30,116 And I know the stars. 730 01:29:30,116 --> 01:29:32,242 And what do you have to offer? 731 01:29:37,373 --> 01:29:39,040 We have to go. 732 01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:49,385 14 June 1597. 733 01:29:49,385 --> 01:29:53,931 At about 4:30, hoping for God's mercy... 734 01:29:53,931 --> 01:29:57,810 we left Nova Zembla with our boat and the sloop. 735 01:29:57,810 --> 01:30:01,355 We see no change or improvement in the weather... 736 01:30:01,355 --> 01:30:04,399 so we left our Kept House. 737 01:33:09,752 --> 01:33:11,211 A Ship! 738 01:33:12,171 --> 01:33:14,548 A Ship! 739 01:33:14,548 --> 01:33:17,259 A Dutch ship. 740 01:33:17,259 --> 01:33:19,135 We made it. 741 01:33:20,888 --> 01:33:22,138 That's good. 742 01:33:24,809 --> 01:33:27,227 Go on. 743 01:33:40,407 --> 01:33:43,744 2 September 1597. 744 01:33:43,744 --> 01:33:49,166 We find the ship of Jan Cornelis de Rijp, a Dutchman anchored here. 745 01:33:49,166 --> 01:33:51,501 God wanted it that way. 746 01:34:47,266 --> 01:34:50,269 He knew it all so well, didn't he? 747 01:34:50,269 --> 01:34:52,896 Where did it take him? 748 01:34:55,107 --> 01:34:58,444 To death. Yes, death. 749 01:34:58,444 --> 01:35:01,447 And you think you're a leader? 750 01:35:01,447 --> 01:35:05,408 Don't make me laugh. You don't have it in you. 751 01:35:10,414 --> 01:35:12,958 What use is this story? 752 01:35:12,958 --> 01:35:14,543 Your book? 753 01:35:14,543 --> 01:35:17,587 Who is waiting for it, man? 754 01:36:01,048 --> 01:36:03,884 What's the use of this story? 755 01:36:03,884 --> 01:36:07,303 All this misery? 756 01:36:09,974 --> 01:36:11,891 What use is it? 757 01:37:43,567 --> 01:37:47,571 6 October 1597. 758 01:37:47,571 --> 01:37:51,658 We left Amsterdam 17 months ago. 759 01:37:51,658 --> 01:37:55,245 The homecoming is important. 760 01:37:55,245 --> 01:37:57,080 Just like the voyage. 761 01:38:19,728 --> 01:38:23,189 In the presence of God... 762 01:38:24,650 --> 01:38:26,652 the success... 763 01:38:26,652 --> 01:38:29,071 but... 764 01:38:29,071 --> 01:38:31,198 above all... 765 01:38:31,198 --> 01:38:33,659 the perseverance... 766 01:38:33,659 --> 01:38:39,039 in order to break down the blockades. 767 01:38:39,039 --> 01:38:41,667 It's only the start. 768 01:38:41,667 --> 01:38:44,710 Thank you, Cornelis de Houtman. 769 01:39:21,540 --> 01:39:23,500 Welcome... 770 01:39:23,500 --> 01:39:25,335 Welcome back. 771 01:39:25,335 --> 01:39:28,380 You're in time for a feast. 772 01:39:28,380 --> 01:39:30,716 Amsterdam is having a feast. 773 01:39:30,716 --> 01:39:34,553 Cornelis de Houtman has found a way to the Indies. 774 01:39:34,553 --> 01:39:38,723 The well-known way, a long way, but successfully. 775 01:39:39,683 --> 01:39:44,228 Your achievement gives us hope. You're an example. 776 01:39:47,483 --> 01:39:48,941 Where is Barentsz? 777 01:40:02,789 --> 01:40:04,999 Barentsz is dead. 778 01:40:13,550 --> 01:40:15,552 Are there others? 779 01:40:15,552 --> 01:40:17,553 Laurens the carpenter. 780 01:40:19,264 --> 01:40:20,598 Harmen... 781 01:40:21,975 --> 01:40:24,645 Jan Fransz... 782 01:40:24,645 --> 01:40:25,853 and... 783 01:40:29,191 --> 01:40:30,441 Vos... 784 01:40:33,862 --> 01:40:36,656 Pieter Vos didn't make it either. 785 01:40:49,878 --> 01:40:52,004 But you're still alive, boy. 786 01:41:07,354 --> 01:41:09,606 Take this boy with you. 787 01:41:09,606 --> 01:41:12,234 Keep him away from my daughter. 788 01:41:12,234 --> 01:41:14,570 Make a man of him... 789 01:41:14,570 --> 01:41:17,947 or feed him to the white bears. 790 01:41:24,621 --> 01:41:26,497 That was a long time ago. 791 01:41:30,919 --> 01:41:32,712 That's the past. 792 01:41:44,016 --> 01:41:45,516 Gerrit. 793 01:41:50,647 --> 01:41:51,981 It's really you. 794 01:42:03,619 --> 01:42:04,952 No... 795 01:42:07,706 --> 01:42:09,874 Don't open it yet, silly. 796 01:42:45,577 --> 01:42:52,125 Written in Amsterdam on the day before the last day of April of 1598. 797 01:42:52,125 --> 01:42:57,631 Your honourable, grateful and faithful servant and son-in-law... 798 01:42:57,631 --> 01:43:00,258 Gerrit de Veer. 799 01:43:00,258 --> 01:43:05,472 The voyages form the start of the glorious era of Amsterdam - the Golden Age. 800 01:43:05,472 --> 01:43:12,895 Only in 1932 does a Russian icebreaker sail north around Nova Zembla to Asia. 801 01:43:13,480 --> 01:43:17,150 The last resting place of Willem Barentsz has never been found. 802 01:43:17,150 --> 01:43:22,239 Jacob van Heemskerck dies in 1607 as admiral in the Battle of Gibraltar. 803 01:43:22,239 --> 01:43:28,536 Gerrit de Veer's diary is the world's first best-seller and boosts Holland's morale. 804 01:43:29,413 --> 01:43:33,041 The city's bonus was never paid to the crew. 805 01:43:33,041 --> 01:43:37,878 No historic document has been found about the rest of Gerrit de Veer's life. 806 01:43:58,608 --> 01:44:01,736 This film is dedicated to all those who sailed to Nova Zembla. 55796

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