Poseidon Explosion, The

SYNOPSIS:

The Story of a beached ship with 4,000 tons of fertilizer & fuel oil. The ship is on fire & if the temperature reaches 3000 degrees, a whole city will be wiped out. The story was inspired by real events.

STARRING:

Gheorghe Dinica, Florin Piersic

RUNTIME: (112 Min)

DIRECTED BY:

Mircea Dragan

PRODUCED BY:

Stephen Minasian

WRITTEN BY:

Ioan Grigorescu

YEAR: 1973

RELEASE DATE: 01/01/1973

LANGUAGES: 

English

Long Synopsis

Nominated for the Gold Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. The story of a beached ship with 4000 tons of fertilizer and gallons of fuel oil. The ship is on fire and if the temperature reaches 300 degrees, a whole city will be wiped out. The story was inspired by a real event that took place in 1970 near Galati, Romania.