Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Cinematography
Kalatozov's ice sequences will make you shiver involuntarily.
Acting
Finch crumbles magnificently; Connery haunts every frame he's in.
Production
That full-scale airship replica? Actually crashed for the shot.
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Peter Finch
Umberto Nobile
Sean Connery
Roald Amundsen
Claudia Cardinale
Valeria
Hardy Krüger
Einar Lundborg
Eduard Martsevich
Finn Malmgren
Grigoriy Gay
Rudolf Samoylovich
Nikita Mikhalkov
Boris Chukhnovskiy
Luigi Vannucchi
Captain Zappi
Mario Adorf
Giuseppe Biagi
Donatas Banionis
Adalberto Mariano
Massimo Girotti
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Yuriy Solomin
Felice Trojani
Otar Koberidze
Natale Cecioni
Boris Khmelnitsky
Alfredo Viglieri
Yuri Vizbor
Frantisek Behounek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The massive airship crash was filmed in one take with a full-scale replica; the explosion was so large it set fire to the surrounding tundra.
Kalatozov made this after the international success of 'I Am Cuba,' using Soviet resources to critique Western individualism—while Nobile himself was still alive and furious at the portrayal.
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