Bad Circumstances

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Bad Circumstances (2018)

Directed by Max Kestner

Documentary · 1h 00m

Three Danish polar scientists tragically lost their lives during an expedition to North-Eastern Greenland from 1906-08. Only one of them was found. More than a hundred years later the mystery and tragedy still nags indomitable amateur historian Steffen Holberg, who is absolutely determined to solve it. With help from knowledgeable people, professional experts and state archives, he moves ever deeper into the rugged terrain between truth and myth, fiction and reality to find out what happened - if he can. Mylius-Erichsen, Høgh Hagen, and Jørgen Brønlund died in the wilderness, but the expedition's search team only found Brønlund's dead body and did not even look for the other two. But why not? In his poetic and imaginative signature style, Max Kestner pays tribute to Holberg's curiosity and to the fundamental human desire to satisfy it. 'Every time you move closer, new worlds appear,' says Kestner about his own working method.

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Crew

Director
Max Kestner
Screenplay
Henrik Veileborg, Max Kestner
Editor
Nanna Frank Møller
Producer
Henrik Veileborg

Details

Original title
Slette Omstændigheder
Release date
2018-03-16
Runtime
1h 00m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
DA
Spoken languages
Danish
Countries
Denmark