Comments on: Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (1982)

By: SAUMITRA SARKAR

SAUMITRA SARKAR — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:06:44 +0000

A masterpiece from Jan Troell ,,,,, representing the classic storytelling genre. Thanks for uploading.

By: James Maguire

James Maguire — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:00:04 +0000

Of the many great films I’ve seen on RF, this and Verhoeven’s Turks Fruit are thus far my favorites.

By: Wolfgang Jahn

Wolfgang Jahn — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:55:56 +0000

In reply to Gregory. Thanx Gregory, for hinting me to this Jan Troell masterpiece! Just watched it in one take and am mesmerized. 10/10. Should have won the 1983 Oscars. I gotta check, which movie won.

By: GREGORY

GREGORY — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:07:31 +0000

I’d like to re-post this not for argument but for consideration:
When the THE EMIGRANTS and THE NEW LAND were released in the US I was still in high school. It’s the fashion these days to speak of Troell’s EMIGRANT saga as less then: too derivative of John Ford to be unique and on and on and on. Liv Ullmann, who considers it to be the crowning glory of all her film work, doesn’t feel that way and neither did her friend Ingmar Bergman who absolutely loved it. After years of treacly, sanitized TV and Hollywood accounts of the immigrant experience produced by us for ourselves, Troell brought out his epic two-parter which attempted to come much closer to the truth. While I’m sure it must “read” differently to those who reside outside the USA, I’ll never forget the power of witnessing those two films of his, even in the truncated form in which each was released at the time. For the first time, as an American, his films taught me WHY people wanted so desperately to come here and what they were willing to sacrifice in order to put that in place. Now that they have been restored to their original length I find them even more effectively moving ‘in toto’. It’s not the whole story for certain, but it tells its story well. Given the incorrigible events which we have witnessed here in the US in the last several years, I’d recommend all Americans during the remains of the pandemic to watch those films to remember an important element of “Why we were what we were” and — more painfully — to ponder on how much of that might have been radically lost. AMEN.

By: Henok Tecle Azieb Ghebreghergis

Henok Tecle Azieb Ghebreghergis — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:51:24 +0000

Thanks very much, Jon!

By: Henok Tecle Azieb Ghebreghergis

Henok Tecle Azieb Ghebreghergis — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:50:55 +0000

If anything, this is a better film than The Emigrants at least to me.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 04:04:53 +0000

Wow. Haven’t seen this since its American release sometime in the early ‘8os. The transfer stock was not nearly so good. This shows Troell’s cinematic color schema at its very best. As with THE EMIGRANTS and THE NEW LAND on their maiden US voyages substantial footage was also excised. This carries a whole extra 30 minutes and what a difference it truly makes. So good to have THE EMIGRANT films and this back in original shape. The pacing is completely different in all three now. the color is truly breathtaking. And Max . . . well, more Max is ALWAYS good! Thanks!

By: stefano

stefano — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:24:40 +0000

Thank you very much for this