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LongitudeLeto:
2000Zvrst:
drama, zgodovinaTrajanje:
200 minRežija:
Charles SturridgeScenarij:
Dava Sobel, Charles SturridgeGlavne vloge:
Jeremy Irons > Rupert Gould
Ian Hart > William Harrison
Michael Gambon > John Harrison
Brian Cox > Lord Morton
Anna Chancellor > Muriel Gould
Peter-Hugo Daly > John Jefferies (as Peter Hugo Daly)
Gemma Jones > Elizabeth Harrison
Emma Kay > Laura Gurney
John Leeson > BBC Producer
Barbara Leigh-Hunt > Dodo Gould (as Barbara Leigh Hunt)
Ian McNeice > Dr. Bliss
Bill Nighy > Lord Sandwich
Peter Penry-Jones > Surgeon
Nick Reding > Captain Campbell
Samuel West > Nevil Maskelyne
Povzetek:
In the eighteenth century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. This movie's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon). He built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the twentieth century story of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to ...
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