Ice Grave

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. Contact is lost after a few days. They are never seen again. Thirty-three years later, on August 6, 1930, a sealing ship makes a chilling discovery on the remote Island of Kvitøya, the northernmost part of Svalbard. The expedition’s remains, bodies frozen in time beneath the snow, alongside journals and undeveloped film material. Ninety-three of the 240 recovered photographs are salvaged. The documentary reconstructs this expedition between delusion and vision, between scientific ambition and human vulnerability as a compelling mosaic of past and present – ​​an archaeological crime thriller about the price of discovery, the beauty of the unknown, and the melting of memory in the ice of time, with a touch of tragic, unrequited love.

• Robin HunzingerDirector
• Robin HunzingerWriter
• Bendik GiskeOriginal Music Composer

• Hélène GaudySelf - Interviewee
• Tyrone MartinssonSelf - Interviewee
• Bea UusmaSelf - Interviewee
• Gunnar HornSelf (archive footage)
• François GillerotSelf - Narrator (voice) (French version)
• Ulrike JohannsonSelf - Narrator (voice) (German version)
• Henrik EkmanSelf - Narrator (voice) (Swedish version)
• Sandrine GrangeSelf - Additional French Voice (voice)
• Jean-François LegoninSelf - Additional French Voice (voice)
• Robin BroschSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
• Dagmar DrekeSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)
• Martin LohmannSelf - Additional German Voice (voice)