Five men, one boat, zero dramatic music—just the raw poetry of existing.
The film depicts life in the Faroe Islands in the 1960s. It's a small society that has maintained its connection to the past, with old customs and ways of life, despite significant developments in trade and industry. Here, fishing remains one of the fundamental pillars of the Faroese economy. The film follows five men, crew members on the same trawler, from the moment they leave their homes in five different places in the Faroe Islands until they meet in the capital, Tórshavn, after long and difficult journeys to set sail on the trawler.
Cinematography
Roos captures the North Atlantic like a character, not backdrop.
Direction
No narration, no interviews—just pure cinematic patience.
Production
1960s documentary access that would be impossible today.
Director
Jørgen Roos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jørgen Roos was a pioneer of Danish documentary; this 1968 film preserves a pre-industrial Faroese fishing culture that industrial trawlers themselves were already transforming.
The five separate journeys mirror the Faroese diaspora—scattered islands, scattered lives, temporarily unified by labor. The film's structure is the society it observes.
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