NORDIC EPIC ADVENTURE AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION WITH PAL SVERRE HAGEN AS THE FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER GETS A USA RELEASE!

 AMUNDSEN EPIC MOVIE 

THE GREATEST EXPEDITION

Amundsen will hit cinemas this spring in USA

It played over in Norway two years ago, but thanks to Samuel Goldwyn films AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION will arrive to USA on VOD and in theatres this April. Pal Sverre Hagen leads the film set in Norway,1926. The Norwegian and English language film charts Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the North Pole which haunts him throughout his life. He is obsessed with the idea of discovering the last unchartered lands of the world. While he wins the race against Robert Scott and becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole. 

 

THE STORY OF THE MOVIE  

After reading in a newspaper about Roald Amundsen's missing in the North Pole, his brother Leon (Christian Rubeck) leaves his house to walk next door to the Roald's house, to await news. Taking him wrongly as a thief,

The movie was directed by Espen Sandberg

Leon is hit by Bess Brigads (Katherine Waterston), Roald's younger love interest. Introducing each other, Bess learns from Leon about the childhood of Roald Amundsen, who rose with a happy family with his parents and other three brothers fascinated by North and South Pole, after the unknown and uncharted lands due to the extreme conditions of survival by the so much below zero temperatures. When their father died during one of his usual sea voyages and their mother died by disease some time later, Roald and Leon strengthened their bond in their wish to be the first men to arrive to North Pole, where Roald would be the explorer and Leon the financier to get a team and the enough money for the travel. But in 1908 Frederick Cook's claiming to have arrived North Pole forced them to change the plans.