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Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd
''Flight of the Eagle'' ( sv, Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd) is a Swedish biographical drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 26 August 1982, directed by Jan Troell, 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. The film stars Max von Sydow as S.A. Andrée, Sverre Anker Ousdal as Knut Frænkel and Göran Stangertz as Nils Strindberg. Dutch-Swedish songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk plays the role of the journalist Lundström. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards. Many sequences from the film were used in the 1997 documentary '' A Frozen Dream'' (''En frusen dröm''), also directed by Troell. Cast * Max von Sydow as Salomon August Andrée * Göran Stangertz as Nils Strindberg * Sverre Anker Ousdal as Knut Frænkel * Clément Harari as Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Troell
Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg. Life and career Troell was born in Limhamn outside Malmö, Sweden. For several years, he worked as an elementary-school teacher but started to make short films in the sixties. In 1965 he co-produced the film ''4x4'' and it was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. He became director of photography for Widerberg but soon made a debut with his own first feature, ''Here's Your Life'' (''Här har du ditt liv'', 1966), about a working class boy in Sweden, set in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was based upon an autobiographical novel by Eyvind Johnson. For the film he won the Guldbagge Award for Best Director at the 4th Guldbagge Awards. His next film ''Who Saw Him Die?'' (''Ole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Pollak
Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak (9 April 1903 – 11 August 1999) was a Swedish actress and theatre director. Biography Maria Helena Pollak was born in Karlstad, Värmland to Austrian-Jewish parents and was trained in the performing arts at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Training Academy in Stockholm 1922-24. Pollak worked in the 1920s and 1930s as a film actress and as stage actress mainly on Helsingborg City Theatre and The Blanche Theatre, Stockholm, but she returned as an actress to Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten) 1942. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's ''Jungfruleken'' (''Les Bonnes''/'' The Maids''), starring Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson in the leads. Pollak became a very successful director at Dramaten and staged altogether 60 plays at the national stage over the years. She appeared since her 1922 debut in the film ''Amatörfilmen'' in about 30 film and TV productions. Notable film ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla Sjöblom
Ulla Sjöblom (11 May 1927 – 3 August 1989) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1988. Selected filmography * ''House of Women'' (1953) * ''Karin Månsdotter'' (1954) * ''Simon the Sinner'' (1954) * '' Our Father and the Gypsy'' (1954) * '' The People of Hemsö'' (1955) * ''Wild Birds'' (1955) * ''My Passionate Longing'' (1956) * '' The Magician'' (1958) * '' The Bookseller Gave Up Bathing'' (1969) * ''Rötmånad'' (1970) * ''Gangsterfilmen ''Gangsterfilmen'' is a 1974 Swedish film directed by Lars G. Thelestam. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Clu Gulager as Glenn Mortenson * Ernst Günther as Anders Andersson * Per Oscarsson as Johan Gusta ...'' (1974) * '' Flight of the Eagle'' (1982) * '' Åke and His World'' (1984) External links * * 1927 births 1989 deaths Swedish film actresses Actresses from Stockholm Eugene O'Neill Award winners 20th-century Swedish actresses {{Sweden-act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilhelm Swedenborg
Gustaf Vilhelm Emanuel Swedenborg (17 June 1869 in Kvidinge – 1943 in Drottningholm) son of lieutenant colonel Gustaf Erik Oscar Swedenborg and Maria Therése Fock, was a member of the Swedish military and an aeronaut, today remembered as a reservist on Salomon August Andrées failed Northpole-expedition in 1897 and for being one of the first Swedish balloonists. He was also the first person to hold an aeronautical certificate in Sweden, issued in 1905. Participation in Andrées expedition Swedenborg became a reserve member of the expedition in the autumn of 1896. The background for this might be that he was the son-in-law of the famous polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. He was also a relative of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, and his famous last name gave a certain prestige to the expedition. Swedenborg left for Paris in March 1897 together with Knut Frænkel where they received training in ballooning by Henri Lachambre, the manufacturer of the balloon "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henric Holmberg
Sven Martin Henric Holmberg (born 4 January 1946) is a Swedish actor, director and scriptwriter. Biography Holmberg started acting in different leftist theater groups, and in 1977 he participated in the Tent Project, a musical theater performance on the history of the Swedish working class movement, in which he had played the role of the Swedish Communist leader Zeth Höglund. Holmberg has played many historical parts. He portrayed Rutger Macklean in ''Macklean'', a 1993 drama show for Sveriges Television. Holmberg has also portrayed Adolf Hitler in the play '' Albert Speer'' at Gothenburg City Theatre Gothenburg City Theatre ( sv, Göteborgs stadsteater) opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was designed by Swedish architect Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamlin ... in 2001, which was also later aired on TV. References * External links * Swedish male actors People from Växjö 1946 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Gustaf Ekholm
Nils Gustaf Ekholm (9 October 1848 – 5 April 1923) was a Swedish meteorologist who led a Swedish geophysical expedition to Spitsbergen in 1882–1883. Biography Ekholm was born in Smedjebacken in Dalarna, son of a pharmacist. Having completed his '' mogenhetsexamen'' in 1868, he enrolled at the University of Uppsala in September 1869, and graduated with a Candidate of Philosophy degree in 1876, completing a Licentiate degree in 1887 and a Ph.D. in 1888. He was a student of Robert Rubenson and Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson. He worked at the Meteorological department at Uppsala University from 1876 until 1881, and again, after returning from his Spitsbergen expedition, 1884–1890, and was docent of meteorology at the university 1888–1892. From 1890 he worked as an assistant at the Swedish Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (one of the predecessor institutions of the current Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, now located in Norrköping). He became pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan-Olof Strandberg
Jan-Olof Strandberg (9 September 1926 – 2 May 2020) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He appeared in 45 films since 1947. On stage one of his most famous parts was as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'', at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (where he performed 85 parts over the years). He appeared in Erland Josephson's play ''Blomsterplockarna ("The Flower Pickers")'' at Dramaten in 2006-2007, performed the part of Andrew in A. R. Gurney's play '' Kärleksbrev (Love Letters)'' at Dramaten, opposite Anita Björk in 2009. Selected filmography * '' In the Arms of the Sea'' (1951) * '' House of Women'' (1953) * '' Wild Birds'' (1955) * ''Last Pair Out'' (1956) * '' A Dreamer's Journey'' (1957) * ''Ön'' (1966) * ''Varning för Jönssonligan'' (1981) * ''Flight of the Eagle'' (1982) * ''Resan till Melonia'' (1989) * ''Faithless Faithless are an English band that formed in 1995, with its core members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. Their first alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Charlier
Anna Albertina Constantia Charlier (/'ʃaljə/) ) (25 July 1871, Norra Åby, Skåne County, Norra Åby, Skåne County, Sweden – 1949) was a Sweden, Swedish woman, today most commonly remembered as the fiancée of Nils Strindberg, participant in the S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897, North Pole expedition of Salomon August Andrée, S. A. Andrée in 1897. Before the expedition Anna Charlier was one of eleven siblings and lost her parents early. She worked as a governess and met Nils Strindberg, who was a houseteacher for one of the families she worked for. She played the piano, he the violin. Anna and Nils Strindberg became engaged on 26 October 1896, eight months before the expedition left for Svalbard. After the expedition The expedition was not heard of in the following years and was presumed to have ended in disaster. Anna emigrated to the United States in 1910 and married Gilbert Henry Conserray Hawtrey. They moved to England in 1914. Miss Ulla Strindberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurli Linder
Ane Gurli Linder née Peterson (1865–1947) was a Swedish writer and feminist who was active in Stockholm's social life in the late 19th century when she also encouraged women to become more directly involved in culture. A strong supporter of libraries and reading, she later played an important role in pioneering the promotion and development of children's literature. Biography Born on 1 October 1865 in Tysslinge, Örebro Municipality, Ane Gurli Peterson was the daughter of the landowner Carl Gustaf Peterson and Marie Christine Kavli. In 1879, she moved to Stockholm with her family. Following her father's death when she was 10 years old, she became a full boarder at Hammarstedt School. She then went on to the Högre lärarinneseminariet teacher training college where she received her teaching diploma in 1885. As there were not many opportunities for women to study at the time, the training college became a centre for women intellectuals. It was probably there that Peterson firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Lachambre
Henri Lachambre (30 December 1846, Vagney, Vosges – 12 June 1904) was a French manufacturer of balloons. His factory was in the Paris suburb Vaugirard. He also participated in ballooning himself carried out 500 ascents. Lachambre supplied balloons to both the US Signal Corps and the ill-fated arctic mission of S. A. Andrée in 1897. He also worked with the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont Alberto Santos-Dumont ( Palmira, 20 July 1873 — Guarujá, 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavie ..., taking him for his first balloon ascent and going on to construct his first balloon in 1898 and later the envelopes for his dirigibles. Together with his nephew Alexis Machuron Lachambre wrote a book about Andrée's expedition, ''Au pôle nord en ballon'' (Imprimerie Nilsson, 1897, 250 pages), which was quickly translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Harari
Clément Harari (10 February 1919 – 16 February 2008) was an Egyptian-born French film and television actor.Bazin p.14 Selected filmography * '' It Happened in Paris'' (1952) * ''Ça va barder'' (1955) - Sammy Kern * ''Mon curé chez les pauvres'' (1956) - Marchot (uncredited) * '' It Happened in Aden'' (1956) - Abdullah * '' La Traversée de Paris'' (1956) - L'otage à lunettes (uncredited) * ''Que les hommes sont bêtes'' (1957) * ''Les Louves'' (1957) - Le préparateur en pharmacie * ''Les Espions'' (1957) - Victor - le faux garçon de café * ''Marchands de filles'' (1957) - L'ivrogne * ''Échec au porteur'' (1958) - L'importateur Adrien Osmets * '' Tamango'' (1958) - Cook * ''Cargaison blanche'' (1958) - Un client * ''Me and the Colonel'' (1958) - Man of the Gestapo * '' In Case of Adversity'' (1958) - Un témoin au tribunal (uncredited) * ''La Nuit des espions'' (1959) - Hans * ''Arrêtez le massacre'' (1959) - The dentist * ''Le Saint mène la danse'' (1960) - Archie * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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