A TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
ARCTIC AVIATORS
TRAILER (4k)
SYNOPSIS
Father and son Helmut and Henrik have an ambition to fly their tiny single-engine Cessna to the North Pole - and land there. But there is no land to 'land' on: just ice that floats on the sea and constantly drifts with the wind and sea currents. Their engine has already failed - twice - in the first part of the trip, fortunately in both cases while still on the ground.
They will attempt the trip, to a destination that has certainly moved but that they absolutely must find - while using dubious navigation systems - with an unreliable engine, not knowing if the weather is bad, and going to one of the coldest and harshest places on earth.
This website gives just a flavour of some of the issues that Helmut and Henrik faced, and the trip organisers and the filming crew. The film itself, narrated by Claudia Christian [more than 80 films and TV series including Babylon 5, Highlander, Grimm, NYPD Blue, The Mentalist, Atlantis, Half Past Dead] tells the whole amazing story.
For the aviators, flying to the North Pole is the dream of a lifetime. They just hope that it won't turn into their nightmare.
Credits
Filmed by Boundary Films on location in Belgium, at the northern extremity of Norway, on the archipelago of Svalbard (nearly 900 miles above the Arctic Circle) and at the North Pole.
Post-production by Bazooka Bunny
“I don't film in conflict zones: TV programmes, corporate videos, music videos is what I do. In all the filming I have done over the years, in countries all round the world I had never before been so upset: it was going to be the almost certain death of the people I was filming, people I had spent many hours with and had come to think of as friends, unless a miracle came along and saved them.ˮ
Thomas Dove, Producer/Director