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Ice Grave (2025)
Directed by Robin Hunzinger
Documentary · 1h 18m
On July 11, 1897, three men - the Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel - set off from Spitsbergen for the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, a daring attempt to conquer the Arctic from the air. Contact is lost after a few days. They are never seen again. Thirty-three years later, on August 6, 1930, a sealing ship makes a chilling discovery on the remote Island of Kvitøya, the northernmost part of Svalbard. The expedition’s remains, bodies frozen in time beneath the snow, alongside journals and undeveloped film material. Ninety-three of the 240 recovered photographs are salvaged. The documentary reconstructs this expedition between delusion and vision, between scientific ambition and human vulnerability as a compelling mosaic of past and present – an archaeological crime thriller about the price of discovery, the beauty of the unknown, and the melting of memory in the ice of time, with a touch of tragic, unrequited love.
Cast
Bea Uusma
Self - Interviewee
Henrik Ekman
Self - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)
Jean-François Legonin
Self - Additional French Voice (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Robin Hunzinger
- Writer
- Robin Hunzinger
- Director of Photography
- Eirik Nicolai Heim
- Original Music Composer
- Bendik Giske
- Editor
- Robin Hunzinger, Benoît Quinon
- Producer
- Cédric Bonin, Pascaline Geoffroy, Maxime Owyszer
Details
- Original title
- Tombeau de glace
- Release date
- 2025-05-10
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, Swedish
- Countries
- France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland
- Production
- Seppia, ARTE, Dixit International, Relation04 Media, SVT, Histoire TV, RTS, CNC, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, Procirep-Angoa, Arctic Film Norway Invest