Flight of the Eagle
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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.[1] 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.
Flight of the Eagle | |
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Directed by | Jan Troell |
Written by | Screenplay: Jan Troell Georg Oddner Ian Rakoff Klaus Rifbjerg Novel: Per Olof Sundman |
Produced by | Jörn Donner Göran Setterberg |
Starring | Max von Sydow Sverre Anker Ousdal Göran Stangertz. |
Cinematography | Jan Troell |
Edited by | Jan Troell |
Music by | Carl-Axel Dominique Hans-Erik Philip |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
Countries | Sweden West Germany Norway |
Languages | Swedish French |
Budget | 20 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.[2] Many of its sequences were used in the 1997 documentary A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm), also directed by Troell.