German title: Aufbruch ins Ungewisse Original title: Survival (1)
Adventure series – New Zealand Production year: 1998 Movie length: 29 minutes
Director: John Laing Writer: Raymond Thompson
Movie description:
Boston, America, 1830’s: David Robinson finds the comfortable life as chief clerk in his father-in-law’s shipping firm tedious. He accepts the offer to open a new branch for the firm in Canton in China, and embarks with his wife Elizabeth and children, Ernst, Joanna and Christina and the family dog, Bruno, on the perilous sailing voyage. Aboard the ship the children meet the crew: a novice seaman Ben Thomas (and there is certainly a hint of mutual attraction between him and Joanna), Billy Cobb, the black cabin boy (with whom the young Christina strikes up an).