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The Burning Sea (2021)

★ 6.6 · 295 ratings on TMDB

The biggest disaster lies ahead of us.

The Burning Sea poster★ 6.6

An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.

DirectorJohn Andreas Andersen
CastAnders Baasmo Christiansen, Ane Skumsvoll, Anneke von der Lippe, Bjørn Floberg, Cengiz Al, Henrik Bjelland
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Burning Sea keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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