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Ice Grave

2025-05-10
9
fr 78m
Documentary
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.

Director

Robin Hunzinger

Producer

Cédric Bonin

Writer

Robin Hunzinger

Director of Photography

Eirik Nicolai Heim

Editor

Robin Hunzinger

Editor

Benoît Quinon

Status

Released

Countries

  • France
  • Sweden
  • Norway
  • Switzerland

Companies

  • Seppia
  • ARTE
  • Dixit International
  • Relation04 Media

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