''A Frozen Dream'' (''En frusen dröm'') is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

released in 1997 as a follow-up to the 1982 Swedish movie ''

Flight of the Eagle ''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 o ...

'', both directed by

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 ...

. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon by

Salomon August Andrée Salomon August Andrée (18 October 1854, in Gränna, Småland – October 1897, in Kvitøya, Arctic Norway), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while ...

in 1897.

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* 1997 films Documentary films about ballooning Films directed by Jan Troell Swedish documentary films 1990s Swedish-language films Documentary films about the Arctic 1997 documentary films 1990s Swedish films {{1990s-Sweden-film-stub