Orion’s Belt (1985): Cast, Plot & Where to Watch

Three seamen aboard the vessel Sandy Hook pull off a shady operation that clings to the edge of Arctic ambition. At the center are Tom Jansen, Lars, and Sverre, a tight-knit trio whose ferrying of tourists on a polar bear safari masks more dangerous schemes. The voyage begins with a glimmer of normalcy, but things tighten around them when their world narrows to money, risk, and the chill of the polar winds. Soon, in Longyearbyen, the crew’s life bleeds into the town’s politics and the heavy Soviet presence that shadows Svalbard, a mood underscored when Eva Gjelseth—Tom’s girlfriend—is introduced during a pub scene that feels like a brief window into a larger, fraught reality.