EditThe Mercy (2018)

Starring the Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, this movie is based on a true story. It describes the struggle of the amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst who is desperately trying to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race of the Sunday Times. Asked by his sponsor: ”I’m putting in the money, what are you putting in?”, Donald answers enthusiastically: ”Everything else!”. Supported by his loving and very worried wife Clare, he goes sailing alone. But is Donald well prepared for such an exhausting challenge? Travelling in all kinds of weather, Donald learns hard truths about himself and, ultimately, about life.

Starring the Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, this movie is based on a true story. It describes the struggle of the amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst who is desperately trying to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race of the Sunday Times. Asked by his sponsor: ”I’m putting in the money, what are you putting in?”, Donald answers enthusiastically: ”Everything else!”. Supported by his loving and very worried wife Clare, he goes sailing alone. But is Donald well prepared for such an exhausting challenge? Travelling in all kinds of weather, Donald learns hard truths about himself and, ultimately, about life.