ICE GRAVE

TOMBEAU DE GLACE

By Robin HUNZINGER

LIGHTDOX - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2025

In 1897, three explorers set off in a hydrogen balloon toward the North Pole—never to return. Decades later, their perfectly preserved remains, journals, and eerie photographs emerge from the ice, bringing to life a haunting chapter of Arctic exploration.

Festivals
& Awards

DOK.fest Munich 2025
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SWEDEN, NORWAY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, SWEDISH, NORWEGIAN
    • Duration
    • 78 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Robin HUNZINGER
    • Producer(s)
    • Cédric BONIN (Seppia ), Malcolm DIXELIUS (Dixit International), Karl Emil RIKARDSEN (RELATION04 Media)
    • Synopsis
    • July 11, 1897. Three men depart from Svalbard in a hydrogen balloon, bound for the North Pole. They are never seen again. Thirty-three years later, on August 6, 1930, a sealing ship makes a chilling discovery on the remote island of Kvitøya: the expedition’s remains, bodies frozen in time beneath the snow, alongside journals and undeveloped film. Ninety-three of the 240 recovered photographs are salvaged. What stories do these images and journals reveal?