A Frozen Dream
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A Frozen Dream is a documentary film
released in 1997 as a followup to the 1982 Swedish movie Flight of the Eagle
, both directed by Jan Troell. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole
in a hydrogen balloon by Salomon August Andrée
in 1897.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
released in 1997 as a followup to the 1982 Swedish movie Flight of the Eagle
Flight of the Eagle
Flight of the Eagle is a 1982 Swedish biographical drama film 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...
, both directed by Jan Troell. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole
S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897
S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée , the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass,...
in a hydrogen balloon by Salomon August Andrée
Salomon August Andrée
Salomon August Andrée , during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon...
in 1897.