


Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Peter Finch
Umberto Nobile

Sean Connery
Roald Amundsen

Claudia Cardinale
Valeria

Hardy Krüger
Einar Lundborg

Eduard Martsevich
Finn Malmgren

Grigori Gaj
Rudolf Samoylovich

Nikita Mikhalkov
Boris Chukhnovskiy

Luigi Vannucchi
Captain Zappi

Mario Adorf
Giuseppe Biagi

Donatas Banionis
Adalberto Mariano

Massimo Girotti
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja

Yuriy Solomin
Felice Trojani

Otar Koberidze
Natale Cecioni

Boris Khmelnitsky
Alfredo Viglieri

Yuri Vizbor
Frantisek Behounek

Nikolay Ivanov
Kolka Shmidt

Vladimir Smirnov
Shelagin

Tengiz Archvadze
Renato Alessandrini (uncredited)

Rein Aren
Karl Eggi (uncredited)

Heinz Braun
Reporter (uncredited)
Mikhail Kalatozov
Ennio De Concini, Richard DeLong Adams
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