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- Title
- Back From the Dead - The Saga of the Rose-Noëlle
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
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This documentary tells the story of four men men who survived 119 days adrift at sea in an upturned trimaran. John Glennie's boat Rose-Noëlle capsized in the Pacific in June 1989, and washed up four months later on Great Barrier Island. Director Mark Beesley mixes raw interviews and spare reenactments to convey the physical and emotional ordeal; the quartet were sometimes trapped inside a cramped section of the boat for days on end. The epic survival-at-sea tale won Best Documentary at the 19...
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- Video
- Date created
- 1996
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/saga-of-the-rose-noelle-1996
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- shipwreck / marine / search and rescue / great barrier island / john glennie / james nalepka / rick hellriegel / phil hoffman / trimaran / phil hofman / jim nalepka / heather hellriegel / karen hofman / shane godinet
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