Krigsseilere: en fortelling om glemte helter

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In the 1930s, 17 young men leave their homes in a Norwegian forest region to become sailors on merchant vessels. When the World War breaks out in 1939, several of them muster on Allied ships. They become wartime seamen, a decision for which they will pay a high price in lost years of youth, dead comrades and physical or mental damage. The experiences of the “forest sailors” are in many ways representative of the history of the wartime seamen. Some witnessed battles at sea between German and Brit...Vis mer

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Krigsseilere

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