The Flight of the Eagle
(1982)
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 never heard from again.
Director
Jan Troell
Writers
Klaus Rifbjerg, Ian Rakoff, Jan Troell, Georg Oddner, Per Olof Sundman
Top Billed
Max von Sydow
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10August 1, 2026
The start of this reminded me of one of my Disney favourites - "The Island at the Top of the World" (1974) as renowned Swedish engineer Salomon Andrée (Max Von Sydow) concludes that he can build a balloon to traverse the Arctic ice to drop a buoy onto the North Pole - and beat the Norwegians to the title, too! Of course there's a fair degree of scepticism from the scientific community and he is going to have raise an extra SKR20,000 from somewher… read the rest.
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Original Language
SV
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