Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
- Einar Lundborg
- (as Hardy Kruger)
- Renato Alessandrini
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSir Sean Connery, who received top billing, spent three weeks filming in Moscow. Peter Finch spent nine months on the production.
- GoofsDuring the final break up of the pack-ice, many shots are included that in fact depict the calving of icebergs at a glacier snout or edge of an ice-shelf. Pack-ice breaking up and icebergs calving are completely unlike each other visually - and, as physical phenomena, are entirely unrelated.
- Quotes
Aviator Lundborg: Men are risking their necks for fame, a medal, promotion, or money. What's wrong with money, mm? Just a means to happiness.
Roald Amundsen: But you don't look like a happy man, exactly. More like a man who's learned to be indifferent to unhappiness.
Aviator Lundborg: I'm glad you know it all, Mr. Amundsen.
Roald Amundsen: But you see, a man who is indifferent to his own unhappiness is indifferent to everything.
- Crazy creditsSome of the material for the Russian version listed the Scottish actor who plays Amundsen as "Sh. Konneri."
- Alternate versionsThe version released in the Soviet Union was significantly longer and featured an alternate score by composer Aleksandr Zatsepin instead of the score by Ennio Morricone used in the shorter European/American version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov (2006)
The film is not condescending in that there is a genuine awe and respect for the great polar explorers. Roald Amundsen's spectral presence (played by Sean Connery) is magnetic and haunting.
Another cinematic precursor of this one may be Battle of the River Plate (1956), also starring Peter Finch, a film fascinated with the concept of historical spectacle. The actual crash is a matter of history, indicated at the start of the film and is not a spoiler. The filming of the crash is spectacular and crazy glorious cine-trauma.
Finn Malmgren is one of the most interesting characters, he has a death wish, a love of the emptiness and Arctic loneliness. I think maybe it's something that they all share. Why would anyone venture into this morass of crumbling ice otherwise?
The film is framed by a trial, Nobile trying himself, in his mind, for the disaster, this is very trippy.
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- Nov 27, 2011
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 38 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.20 : 1