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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd, "Engineer Andree's Flight") is a 1982 film directed by Jan Troell.It is about S.A. Andree's Arctic balloon expedition in 1897. In an age of exploration where the last challenges were to reach the North and South Poles, S.A. Andree (Max von Sydow) had the idea of flying a balloon over the North Pole. A balloon would of course avoid the problems of hauling sledges over the awful terrain of the Arctic ice pack, and it would be much quicker, reaching the Pole in only a couple of days. Skeptics doubt Andree's idea, but he is determined. Andree recruits engineer Knut Fraenkel and photographer Nils Strindberg and, in July 1897, riding on a wave of nationalist enthusiasm, they are off.Unfortunately, the skeptics were right. The drag ropes that Andree had hoped to use to steer the balloon are lost immediately, leaving the balloon drifting freely in the wind. Worse, the balloon leaks hydrogen at an unsustainable rate. Just two days into their journey, and less than halfway to the North Pole, the balloon crashes. The three men are left stranded on the Arctic ice pack, facing a long, difficult journey on foot back to civilization.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Artistic License – History: Overall, highly researched and accurate, but... In Real Life the party suffered a major setback when, while they were sheltering in an ice hut, the floe that they were on broke up underneath them, forcing them to flee to the nearby island. In the movie they simply vote to make camp on the island rather than stay on the ice. Andree carries poison, and says that he won't be left to "crawl" like the Jeannette expedition, where they were eating each other before the end. There was no evidence of cannibalism on the Jeanette expedition, although they did starve to death in the Siberian far north. Andree may be thinking of the Franklin expedition, where they did eat each other before the last of Franklin's sailors died from starvation and scurvy. | |
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Awesome McCoolname: Andree's companions laugh about how his full name is actually "Salomon August Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Andrée". | |
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In Real Life the party suffered a major setback when, while they were sheltering in an ice hut, the floe that they were on broke up underneath them, forcing them to flee to the nearby island. In the movie they simply vote to make camp on the island rather than stay on the ice. | |
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