The Flight of the Eagle
Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd
1982, Film, 140 min, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Swedish, Sweden, MoviePedia score 67
An insane dream to make the impossible possible.
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.
Directed by Jan Troell
Cast
- Max von Sydow as S.A. Andrée
- Sverre Anker Ousdal as Knut Fraenkel
- Göran Stangertz as Nils Strindberg
- Eva von Hanno as Gurli Linder
- Charlotta Larsson as Anna Charlier
- Clément Harari as Lachambre
- Cornelis Vreeswijk as Lundström
- Jan-Olof Strandberg as Nils Ekholm
- Henric Holmberg as Svedenborg
- Mimi Pollak as Mina Andrée
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