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1982 film

This article is about the film. For the novel, see Flight of the Eagle (novel).

Flight of the Eagle (Swedish: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a Swedish biographicaldrama 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.

The film stars Max von Sydow as S.A. Andrée, Sverre Anker Ousdal as Knut Frænkel and Göran Stangertz as Nils Strindberg.

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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.

Plot

After Andrée must a