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
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- 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)
Peter Finch is very good as Nobile, and so is Connery as Amundsen - and it's an historic well-known fact that the first man to reach the South Pole, Amundsen, vanished in his attempt to save Nobile.
Of note is that the story is recounted in flashback much later in a sort of trial of Nobile in his home in Rome, as characters living and dead appear to confront or defend him. Whether or not Nobile was reckless or had bad luck, or just over reached himself, is for the viewer to determine from putting the stories together.
Somewhat long and overinvolved this is still an engrossing account of an epic Arctic disaster and the heroic rescue attempts that followed. If you see it, GRAB it.
- Kirasjeri
- Sep 10, 1999
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 38 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.20 : 1
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