Heweliusz | Official Trailer | Netflix
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MS Jan Heweliusz sank on 14 January 1993, between about 04:10 and 05:12 (UTC+1) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Świnoujście, Poland, to Ystad, Sweden. Out of 65 passengers and crew, 56 died in the disaster, making it the largest peacetime maritime disaster in Polish history. - Wikipedia
The show is a big production showing us the disaster as it unfolded and the feeble rescue efforts. Then we move on to the inquiry where the court is trying to pin the blame on the captain and the crew when the blame might be better placed on the state agency running the ferry company. We get a couple of good speeches from people during the inquiry, not that it makes any difference. The state maintains their stonewall defense.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, so I imagine many of the old state agencies were still in operation due to inertia.
5 episodes, 1 hour each.
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