All Is Lost – Überleben ist Alles (2013)

All Is Lost – Überleben ist Alles: Directed by J.C. Chandor. With Robert Redford, Dyapa Gnaneshwar Reddy. After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

“Ocean sailing that went sour. Man wakes up in the middle of absolute oceanic nowhere to find he had collided with a container, causing damage to his boat as well as rendering communications totally ineffective.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is made as a series of events aiming for this man to fail. Once restoration and improvement of conditions is achieved, a setback occurs. He is exposed, unprotected and threatened once again. Death is constantly around the corner.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe sequences are very realistic, accurately depicting the inherent risk of sea adventure. The calm is followed by a storm which is succeeded by another calm.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe success of this film lies in the fact that it is held well together, despite the complete absence of dialogue and this why only an actor of the stature of Robert Redford could pull this off and is in terrific shape despite his 77 years.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eUltimately, it is a tale of triumph of the human spirit that will not yield in the face of adversity and will fight to the very end to survive.”