Flight of the Eagle
| Flight of the Eagle | |
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| Directed by | Jan Troell |
| Produced by |
Jörn Donner Göran Setterberg |
| Written by |
Screenplay: Jan Troell Georg Oddner Ian Rakoff Klaus Rifbjerg Novel: Per Olof Sundman |
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Max von Sydow Sverre Anker Ousdal Göran Stangertz. |
| Music by | Carl-Axel Dominique Hans-Erik Philip |
| Cinematography | Jan Troell |
| Edited by | Jan Troell |
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140 minutes |
| Country | Sweden West Germany Norway |
| Language |
Swedish French |
| Budget | 20 million SEK |
Flight of the Eagle (Swedish: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a Swedish biographical drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 August 1982, directed by Jan Troell, based on Per Olof Sundman's 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. Dutch-Swedish songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk plays the role of the journalist Lundström.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards. Many sequences from the film were used in the 1997 documentary A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm), also directed by Troell.
The early drafts for a script were written in 1977, and the same year a team consisting of Jan Troell, the producer Bengt Forslund, the original writer of the novel Per Olof Sundman and a few other people went to Spitsbergen for location scouting. Troell was at the time in the post-production process of his film Bang!, and when Bang! was selected for the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, the plan was to use the festival to attract investors. However, Bang! was poorly received and the interest faded even from the Swedish Film Institute. The project was put on hold and Troell went to the United States to direct Hurricane, an assignment he was offered after the previous director Roman Polanski had suddenly left the country to avoid sentencing for unlawful sexual intercourse with a thirteen-year-old in Los Angeles.
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