The Mercy
Based on the true story
Country
Production
Budget
$18 000 000
Box office
$4 230 143
Director
Actors
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Mark Gatiss, Genevieve Gaunt, Jonathan Bailey, Andrew Buchan, Simon McBurney, Eleanor Stagg, Ken Stott
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Scott Z. Burns, Nicolas Mauvernay, Jacques Perrin, Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Jonny Persey, Diarmuid McKeown, Dan MacRae
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Jon Henson
Audition
Lucy Bevan, Olivia Scott-Webb
Editing
Joan Sobel, Jinx Godfrey
Whole Team (86)
Whole Team (86)
Short description
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
What's left behind the scenes
- The filming was so extreme that Colin Firth was hospitalized with a dislocated hip on one of the shooting days.
- A Soviet film, “The Race of the Century” (1986), was made about the adventures of Donald Crowhurst.
- Initially, the role of Claire – Donald Crowhurst’s wife – was to be played by Kate Winslet.
- Inspired by Donald Crowhurst’s voyage, the band Lay It on the Line recorded the album «Crowhurst».
- The last entry in Donald Crowhurst's logbook is dated July 1, 1969: "It is finished. It is finished. IT IS THE MERCY."
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