Summary
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.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Teens
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
- You need an uplifting mood
- You want fast pacing
Where to watch
Not streaming in United States. Where it is:
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 70GoodWatch 79
IMDb7.0
Running time
1 h 18 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −18 min on the typical 96
typical 9678Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2025
May 10, 2025
Last year
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
SwedishMade in
France- Sweden
Norway
Switzerland
Rated
No age rating yet.
Yes: its content advisories are disturbing imagery, and the viewing guide lists it for family nights.
What's in it
- ViolenceLittle or none
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFamily Movie NightFriends NightIntergenerationalPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids.
and 1 more14 people
- HGHélène GaudySelf - Interviewee
- TMTyrone MartinssonSelf - Interviewee
- Bea UusmaSelf - Interviewee
- GHGunnar HornSelf (archive footage)
- FGFrançois GillerotSelf - Narrator (voice) (French version)
- UJUlrike JohannsonSelf - Narrator (voice) (German version)
- Henrik EkmanSelf - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)
- SGSandrine GrangeSelf - Additional French Voice (voice)
- Jean-François LegoninSelf - Additional French Voice (voice)
- RBRobin BroschSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
- DDDagmar DrekeSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
- MLMartin LohmannSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
- Johannes SemmSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
- VWVerena WolfienSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
Directing · 2
- Robin Hunzinger Director, Writer, Editor
- Inge Horter Assistant Director
Production · 25
- Cédric Bonin Producer
- Maxime Owyszer Producer
- Pascaline Geoffroy Producer
- Frédéric Pfyffer Associate Producer
- Éric Vassard Production Manager
- Christophe Sommet Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Eirik Nicolai Heim Director of Photography
Editing · 4
- Benoît Quinon Editor
- Robin Gontier Additional Editor
- Christophe Reynaud Color Grading
- Tom Da Fonseca Assistant Editor
Sound · 4
- Bendik Giske Original Music Composer
- Hassen Bahloul Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Editor
- Marc Namblard Sound, Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Marcus Sjödin Sound
Other crew · 7
- Richard Doust Translator
- Chérine Koubat Translator
- Mona Schlaeder Translator
- Michael Craig Translator
- Alexandre Marionneau Commissioning Editor
- Guillaume Bringard Technical Supervisor
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