(Tombeau de glace)

Content: 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.

Countries:

France,

Sweden,

Norway,

Switzerland

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

78 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Robin Hunzinger

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Production companies:

Seppia,

ARTE,

Dixit International,

Relation04 Media,

SVT,

Histoire TV,

RTS,

CNC,

Eurométropole de Strasbourg,

Région Grand Est,

Procirep-Angoa,

Arctic Film Norway Invest

Actors:

Self - Interviewee

Self - Interviewee

Self - Interviewee

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice) (French version)

Crews:

Director

Producer

Writer

Director of Photography

Editor