Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 10, 2025
- Original language
- English
- Production
- CNC,SVT,ARTE,RTS,Région Grand Est,Seppia,Eurométropole de Strasbourg,Histoire TV,Relation04 Media,Procirep-Angoa,Dixit International,Arctic Film Norway Invest
- Cast
- Hélène Gaudy,Tyrone Martinsson,Bea Uusma,Gunnar Horn,François Gillerot,Ulrike Johannson,Henrik Ekman,Sandrine Grange,Jean-François Legonin,Robin Broschand 4 more
- Director
- Robin Hunzinger
- Writer
- Robin Hunzinger
- Cinematography
- Eirik Nicolai Heim
- Music
- Bendik Giske
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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