Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea backdrop

Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

Directed by Liam Saury, Richard Danto

Starring Richard Berry, Patrick Bouchitey

In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.