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The Film "Togo": The Story of a Rescue in Alaska

The 2019 adventure drama tells the true story of 1925, when a team led by Leonhard Seppala and his dog Togo traveled over a thousand miles across snowy Alaska to deliver life-saving diphtheria serum to the city of Nome.


The Film "Togo": The Story of a Rescue in Alaska

Together, they traveled the longest and most dangerous distance to transport life-saving medicine. Who acted? The main cast includes: Willem Dafoe as Leonhard Seppala (the musher and owner of Togo). Julianne Nicholson as Constance Seppala (Leonhard's wife). Christopher Heyerdahl as the Mayor of Nome. The film focuses on the serum run to Nome and the most crucial and dangerous leg of the journey, led by Seppala and Togo. The only way to get the antitoxin needed to save the children was to transport it by sled across more than a thousand kilometers of ice floes, snowstorms, and extreme conditions. Togo, despite being a small dog that initially didn't show promise as a sled dog leader, demonstrated exceptional endurance and intelligence. Buenos Aires, December 7 (NA) – The film "Togo", released in 2019 on the Disney+ platform, is an adventure and biographical drama based on real events that occurred in Alaska in 1925. According to what Noticias Argentinas agency learned, the film recently arrived on the Netflix platform, where it became a hit and reached such a level of views that it is among the ten most-watched titles in Argentina. What is "Togo" about? The film tells the incredible and heroic story of Togo, a Siberian Husky, and his owner, Norwegian musher Leonhard Seppala. In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic hit the remote city of Nome, Alaska.