---
title: 'Flight of the Eagle (1982)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jan Troell'
released: '1982-08-22'
runtime_minutes: 140
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'Sweden'
  - 'Norway'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/flight-of-the-eagle-1982'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084136/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Flight of the Eagle (1982)

1982 · 140 min · Drama, Adventure, History · Germany, Sweden, Norway

Original title: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd

## Synopsis

Flight of the Eagle is a Swedish biographical drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 August 1982. Directed by Jan Troell, it was based on Per Olof Sundman's 1967 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Screenplay:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell), [Klaus Rifbjerg](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-rifbjerg), [Georg Oddner](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-oddner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Editor:** [Jan Troell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-troell)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Carl-Axel Dominique](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-axel-dominique), [Hans-Erik Philip](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-erik-philip)
- **Producer:** [Jörn Donner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jorn-donner)

## Cast

- [Siv Ericks](https://cinepixo.com/people/siv-ericks)
- [Knut Husebø](https://cinepixo.com/people/knut-huseb) as Fridtjof Nansen
- [Eva von Hanno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-von-hanno) as Gurli Linder
- [Sverre Anker Ousdal](https://cinepixo.com/people/sverre-anker-ousdal) as Knut Frænkel
- [Göran Stangertz](https://cinepixo.com/people/goran-stangertz) as Nils Strindberg
- [Ingvar Kjellson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingvar-kjellson) as Alfred Nobel
- [Mimi Pollak](https://cinepixo.com/people/mimi-pollak)
- [Peter Schildt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-schildt)
- [Allan Schulman](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-schulman) as Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
- [Cornelis Vreeswijk](https://cinepixo.com/people/cornelis-vreeswijk)
- [Ulla Sjöblom](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulla-sjoblom)
- [Max von Sydow](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-von-sydow) as Salomon August Andrée
- [Jan-Olof Strandberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-olof-strandberg) as Nils Gustaf Ekholm
- [Clément Harari](https://cinepixo.com/people/clement-harari) as Henri Lachambre
- [Henric Holmberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/henric-holmberg) as Vilhelm Swedenborg

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/flight-of-the-eagle-1982
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