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'The Last Cruise' is a 2021 documentary film directed by Hannah Olson. It is about the COVID-19 outbreak on the 'Diamond Princess'. It premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and was released on March 30, 2021 by HBO.

Synopsis



'The Last Cruise' documents the experiences of people onboard the now-infamous 'Diamond Princess' cruise ship, where an uncontained COVID-19 outbreak at the start of the pandemic became a global spectacle and a faraway symbol of the new virus and its potential to upend any sense of normalcy.

The ship set sail from Yokohama, Japan on January 20, 2020. By February 26, the 'Diamond Princess' accounted for more than half of all the documented COVID-19 cases outside of China with over 700 infected people aboard. Using intimate footage recorded by its passengers and crew, 'The Last Cruise' is a first-person account of the nightmare that transpired aboard the ill-fated cruise. With little information available about the new virus and limited access to resources, the ships cases soared. Passengers were quarantined in their staterooms for weeks and would ultimately account for the first citizens to test positive for COVID-19 in several countries around the world. Meanwhile, the crew tended to the passengers, delivered room service meals and slept and dined in cramped, shared quarters. Theyd become what would later be termed essential workers.

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