

158 minutes
12/23/1969
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Peter Finch
as Umberto Nobile

Sean Connery
as Roald Amundsen

Claudia Cardinale
as Valeria

Hardy Krüger
as Einar Lundborg

Eduard Martsevich
as Finn Malmgren

Grigori Gaj
as Rudolf Samoylovich

Nikita Mikhalkov
as Boris Chukhnovskiy

Luigi Vannucchi
as Captain Zappi

Mario Adorf
as Giuseppe Biagi

Donatas Banionis
as Adalberto Mariano

Massimo Girotti
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja

Yuriy Solomin
as Felice Trojani

Otar Koberidze
as Natale Cecioni

Boris Khmelnitsky
as Alfredo Viglieri

Yuri Vizbor
as Frantisek Behounek

Nikolay Ivanov
as Kolka Shmidt

Vladimir Smirnov
as Shelagin

Tengiz Archvadze
as Renato Alessandrini (uncredited)

Rein Aren
as Karl Eggi (uncredited)

Heinz Braun
as Reporter (uncredited)

Anatoliy Bystrov
as Rinborg's Neighbor in the Hospital Room (uncredited)

Robert Daglish
as The Reporter (uncredited)
Feliksas Einas
as Amundsen's Servant (uncredited)
Roland Engmann
as Duty Officer (uncredited)

Boris Goldayev
as Kolka Shmidt's Fellow Villager (uncredited)

Leonid Kanevsky
as Italian Radio Operator (uncredited)

Viktor Kharitonov
as Part-bit (uncredited)

Stanislav Khitrov
as Radio Operator of Icebreaker 'Krasin' (uncredited)

Irakli Khizanishvili
as Pomella (uncredited)

Eve Kivi
as The Blonde Lady (uncredited)

Boris Klyuev
as The Reporter (uncredited)

Stepan Krylov
as The Boatswain (uncredited)

Vitaliy Matveyev
as Seeing Off (uncredited)
Sergey Madyanov
as Part-bit (uncredited)

Galina Mikeladze
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Dmitriy Mirgorodskiy
as Caratti (uncredited)

Oleg Mokshantsev
as Pavel Ponomaryov (uncredited)

Yuriy Nazarov
as Anatoliy Alekseev (uncredited)

Bruno O'Ya
as Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Yevgeniy Orlov
as Mishka (uncredited)

Gleb Plaksin
as The Reporter (uncredited)

Ernst Romanov
as The Polar Explorer (uncredited)

Paul Scofield
as Main Judge (uncredited)
Aleksey Sezeman
as The Reporter (uncredited)
Valeriy Sirovskiy
as Lago (uncredited)

Nikolay Smorchkov
as The Seaman (uncredited)

Rogvold Sukhoverko
as Ringborg (uncredited)

Tamara Timofeeva
as The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)

Andrei Vertogradov
as Radio Operator of 'Citta di Milano' (uncredited)

Luidmila Tsvetkova
as Part-bit (uncredited)

Aleksandr Yanvaryov
as Straube (uncredited)

Aleksandra Yozhkina
as The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)