The Red Tent (1969)

Original title

Красная палатка

Directed by

Mikhail Kalatozov

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Soviet Union, Italy

Runtime

2h 38m

Rated

G

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film dramatizes the 1928 rescue mission for Umberto Nobile and his crew after their airship crashed in the Arctic. It follows explorer Roald Amundsen and others as they organize a dangerous search across the ice.

historicalepicdramaticslow-pacedintrospectivebleaksuspensefulvisually grand

What happens

The Red Tent (Russian: Красная палатка, translit. Krasnaya palatka; Italian: La tenda rossa) is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 adventure drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The film is based on the story of the 1928 mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and Mikhail Kalatozov from Nagibin's novel of the same title. Nagibin couldn't complete the script due to a series of conflicts with the producer, who insisted on expanding the role of his paramour Claudia Cardinale, and it was completed by de Concini and Bolt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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