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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.
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Hélène Gaudy
as Self - Interviewee
T.M
Tyrone Martinsson
as Self - Interviewee
Bea Uusma
as Self - Interviewee
G.H
Gunnar Horn
as Self (archive footage)
F.G
François Gillerot
as Self - Narrator (voice) (French version)
U.J
Ulrike Johannson
as Self - Narrator (voice) (German version)
Henrik Ekman
as Self - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)
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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.
H.G
Hélène Gaudy
as Self - Interviewee
T.M
Tyrone Martinsson
as Self - Interviewee
Bea Uusma
as Self - Interviewee
G.H
Gunnar Horn
as Self (archive footage)
F.G
François Gillerot
as Self - Narrator (voice) (French version)
U.J
Ulrike Johannson
as Self - Narrator (voice) (German version)
Henrik Ekman
as Self - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)
