Flight of the Eagle

Flight of the Eagle (Swedish: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a Swedish biographical drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 August 1982. Directed by Jan Troell, it was based on Per Olof Sundman's 1967 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.

This article is about the film. For the novel, see Flight of the Eagle (novel).
Flight of the Eagle
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJan Troell
Written byScreenplay:
Jan Troell
Georg Oddner
Ian Rakoff
Klaus Rifbjerg
Novel:
Per Olof Sundman
Produced byJörn Donner
Göran Setterberg
StarringMax von Sydow
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Göran Stangertz.
CinematographyJan Troell
Edited byJan Troell
Music byCarl-Axel Dominique
Hans-Erik Philip
Release date
  • 26 August 1982 (1982-08-26) (Sweden)
Running time
140 minutes
CountriesSweden
West Germany
Norway
LanguagesSwedish
French
Budget20 million SEK

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.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards. Many of its sequences were used in the 1997 documentary A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm), also directed by Troell.

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