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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Directed by Jan Troell
Overview
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 not heard of again.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Max von Sydow | Göran Stangertz | Sverre Anker Ousdal | Clément Harari | Eva von Hanno | Charlotta Larsson | Jan-Olof Strandberg | Henric Holmberg | Ulla Sjöblom | Mimi Pollak | Siv Ericks | Cornelis Vreeswijk | Ingvar Kjellson | Bruno Sörwing | Ake Wihlney | Berto Marklund | Knut Husebø | Allan Schulman | Staffan Liljander | Lasse Pöysti | Peter Schildt | Henrik Schildt | Mårten Larsson | Sture Hovstadius | Olle Grönstedt | Bruno Balp | Angelica Lundqvist | Jakob Setterberg | Per Olof Ultvedt | Botvid Kihlman | Ulf Ståbi | Seve Ungermark | Mac Hertzman-Ericson | Gunilla Franzén | Ewamaria Björkström-Roos | Anders Wallgren | Barbro Samuelsson | Christina Lindström | Richard Malm | Charlotte Lewenhaupt | Carina Reich | Charlotte Assarsson | Ann-Charlotte Bengtsson | Cecilia Eliasson | My Holmsten | Carina Jarlemark-Borg | Marga Pettersson | Susie Sulocki | Annika Listén