Ice Grave
On July 11, 1897, three men - the Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel - set off from Spitsbergen for the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, a daring attempt to conquer the Arctic from the air. Contact is lost after a few days. They are never seen again. Thirty-three years later, on August 6, 1930, a sealing ship makes a chilling discovery on the remote Island of Kvitøya, the northernmost part of Svalbard. The expedition’s remains, bodies frozen in time beneath the snow, alongside journals and undeveloped film material. Ninety-three of the 240 recovered photographs are salvaged. The documentary reconstructs this expedition between delusion and vision, between scientific ambition and human vulnerability as a compelling mosaic of past and present – an archaeological crime thriller about the price of discovery, the beauty of the unknown, and the melting of memory in the ice of time, with a touch of tragic, unrequited love.
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Seppia, ARTE, Dixit International, Relation04 Media, SVT, Histoire TV, RTS, CNC, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Région Grand Est, Procirep-Angoa, Arctic Film Norway Invest
Director: Robin Hunzinger
Cast: Hélène Gaudy, Tyrone Martinsson, Bea Uusma, Gunnar Horn, François Gillerot, Ulrike Johannson
Crew: Robin Hunzinger (Director), Cédric Bonin (Producer), Robin Hunzinger (Writer), Eirik Nicolai Heim (Director of Photography), Robin Hunzinger (Editor), Benoît Quinon (Editor)
Runtime: 78 minutes
Release: May 10, 2025
IMDb: 8.70/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 5
Country: France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland
Language: Français, svenska
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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