Frankenstein
Synopsis
A Danish ship is stuck in the ice trying to reach the North Pole when the crew finds a wounded man. Pursued by a being with super human strength they take him back to the ship. While recovering the man, revealed to be Victor Frankenstein, tells his tale.
Frankenstein grew up in France as the son of surgeon and his wife in an unhappy marriage. Closer to his mother than his father, he becomes obsessed with surpassing his father as a surgeon when his mother dies while giving birth to his brother William swearing to conquer death.