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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Directed by Jan Troell
“An insane dream to make the impossible possible.”
Drama, Adventure · 2h 20m
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.
Cast
Max von Sydow
Salomon August Andrée
Göran Stangertz
Nils Strindberg
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Knut Frænkel
Clément Harari
Henri Lachambre
Eva von Hanno
Gurli Linder
C
Charlotta Larsson
Anna Charlier
Jan-Olof Strandberg
Dr. Nils Ekholm
Henric Holmberg
Vilhelm Svedenborg
Ulla Sjöblom
Andrée's Sister
Mimi Pollak
Mina Andrée
Siv Ericks
Mrs. Assarsson
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Lundström
Crew
- Director
- Jan Troell
- Screenplay
- Ian Rakoff, Klaus Rifbjerg, Jan Troell, Georg Oddner
- Novel
- Per Olof Sundman
- Director of Photography
- Jan Troell
- Original Music Composer
- Hans-Erik Philip, Carl-Axel Dominique
- Editor
- Jan Troell
- Producer
- Jörn Donner
Details
- Original title
- Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd
- Release date
- 1982-08-26
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure
- Original language
- SV
- Spoken languages
- German, French, Swedish
- Countries
- Germany, Norway, Sweden
- Production
- Svenska Filminstitutet, Bold Productions, SVT, SF Studios, Norsk Film, Adnorsk, Polyphon