On October 3rd, 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa and over 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and remembers this nightmarish experience. Meanwhile at the harbor, hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
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Morgan Knibbe Director
First release August 7, 2014 · Produced in Netherlands · Languages Italian, Tigrinya
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De Correspondent
Production
Netherlands
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Original title
Schipbreuk
Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
Italian · Tigrinya
Release dates
Switzerland · August 7, 2014
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