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The Flight of the Eagle

  • August 1982
  • 2hrs

    20mins

  • Drama
  • Adventure
  • Directed by

    Jan Troell,

    Göran Setterberg,

    Starring

    Max von Sydow,

    Göran Stangertz,

    Sverre Anker Ousdal,

    Clément Harari

    ...

    The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.