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The Flight of the Eagle is a suédois film of genre Drama directed by Jan Troell with Max von Sydow
The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
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Add to a movie listFlight of the Eagle (Swedish: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a 1982 Swedish biographical drama film directed by Jan Troell, based on Per Olof Sundman's novelization of the true story of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. The film stars Max von Sydow as S.A. Andrée, Sverre Anker Ousdal as Knut Frænkel and Göran Stangertz as Nils Strindberg. Dutch-Swedish songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk plays the role of the journalist Lundström.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards. Many sequences from the film were used in the 1997 documentary A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm), also directed by Troell.
Synopsis
Film sur Salomon August Andrée.Actors
Max von Sydow
(Salomon August Andrée)
Sverre Anker Ousdal
(Knut Frænkel)
Göran Stangertz
(Nils Strindberg)
Jan-Olof Strandberg
(Dr. Nils Ekholm)
Henric Holmberg
(Vilhelm Svedenborg)
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