Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Flight of the Eagle - Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd - (1982)

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

Director: Jan Troell. 

Writers: Klaus Rifbjerg, Ian Rakoff, Jan Troell & Georg Oddner (screenplay), Per Olof Sundman (freely adapted from the novel by).

Stars: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker, Clément Harari, Eva von Hanno, Lotta Larsson, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Henric Holmberg, Ulla Sjöblom, Mimi Pollak, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Ingvar Kjellson, Bruno Sörwing. 

Subtitles in English. Courtesy of RareFilm.

Link fot the movie: https://ok.ru/video/2566689000102

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Goddard , 1990)

Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard’s film works as an allegory on film. The loose narrative tells about a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies but some time later, he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

Director: Jean-Luc Godard.

Writers: Jacques Audiberti (novel), Jean-Luc Godard (scenario) (uncredited).

Stars: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Reigher, Laurence Côte, Joseph Lisbona, Véronique Müller, Joe Sheridan.

Subtitled in English.

Movie Link: https://ok.ru/video/2610668440230

The Flight of the Eagle - Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd - (1982)

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition ...