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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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Status: Released
Release Date: 2025-05-10
Companies Seppia, ARTE, Dixit International, Relation04 Media, SVT, Histoire TV, RTS, CNC, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, Procirep-Angoa, Arctic Film Norway Invest
Runtime: 78 Mins
Rating: 9 / 10
Likes: 2 Likes
IMDB ID tt36643815

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Cast

Hélène Gaudy

Self - Interviewee

Tyrone Martinsson

Self - Interviewee

Bea Uusma

Self - Interviewee

Gunnar Horn

Self (archive footage)

François Gillerot

Self - Narrator (voice) (French version)

Ulrike Johannson

Self - Narrator (voice) (German version)

Henrik Ekman

Self - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)

Sandrine Grange

Self - Additional French Voice (voice)