The Forbidden Quest

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name = The Forbidden Quest


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director = Peter Delpeut
writer = Peter Delpeut
starring = Joseph O'Conor
Roy Ward
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editing = Peter Delpeut
distributor = Ariel Film
Zeitgeist Films
released = 1993
runtime = 75 min.
country = Netherlands
language = English
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imdb_id = 0106945

"The Fobidden Quest" is a 1993 mockumentary written and directed by Peter Delpeut.

The film won the 1994 International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award at the Fantasporto (aka Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto) in Portugal.
The film won the1993 Special Jury Prize at the Nederlands Film Festival (aka Nederlandse Filmdagen) It was released in Netherlands theaters on April 8, 1993.

Plot

In 1931, a documentary filmmaker hears of J.C. Sullivan who may know the fate of the Hollandia, a Norse ship that sailed in 1905 to Antarctica and disappeared. .J.C. Sullivan was the carpenter on that ill fated voyage and is the last known surviving crewmember of the Hollandia. The filmmaker interviews J.C. Sullivan who also is able to supply him with canisters of old film footage which back up the unbelievable accounts that J.C. Sullivan describes.

The film made in 1993 is presented as a 1931 documentary of a series of events that occurred in 1905. The footage of the fictional expedition is from other polar expeditions of the time. These clips are interspersed with the interview of J.C. Sullivan.

Cast

* Joseph O'Conor as J.C. Sullivan
* Roy Ward as the Interviewer/filmmaker

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