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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.

Cast

  • Hélène Gaudy

  • Tyrone Martinsson

  • Bea Uusma

  • Gunnar Horn

  • François Gillerot

  • Ulrike Johannson

  • Henrik Ekman

  • Sandrine Grange

  • Jean-François Legonin

  • Robin Brosch

  • Dagmar Dreke

  • Martin Lohmann

  • Johannes Semm

  • Verena Wolfien

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