Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic

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Movie
German title Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic
Original title Bear Island
Country of production UK , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1979
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Don Sharp
script David Butler
Don Sharp
Murray Smith
production William Hill
Peter Snell
music Robert Farnon
camera Alan Hume
cut Eric Boyd-Perkins
Tony Lower
occupation

The Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic (original title: Bear Island ) is a 1979 published British - Canadian thriller by the Australian director Don Sharp based on the novel The Island (original title: Bear Island ) by the bestselling author Alistair MacLean .

action

A group of researchers led by the German Otto Gerran arrives on the Arctic Bear Island south of Svalbard . The main actors in the film, especially the protagonist Frank Lansing, almost all only take part in the expedition ostensibly because of their research activities. Rather, the island is the focus of interest because of its role in World War II. After the film was finished, it served as a base for the German submarines, which was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid in the last days of the war. Lansing tries to clarify the fate of his father, who was stationed on Bear Island as a submarine commander, and comes across a pot of gold that is still stored in the bunker. It is precisely this gold treasure that triggers a flood of acts of sabotage and attacks between parties that were initially vague and later more and more obvious.

A group of globally operating Nazis and their mysterious leader code-named “Zelda”, the Norwegian secret service, a greedy American, a German who wants to rehabilitate himself, and numerous others alike compete for the treasure. Lansing and Dr. With the help of Larsen, who was believed to be dead, Linquist find out that Jungbeck and Heyter are Nazis and that Paul Hartmann is “Zelda”. Hartmann shoots Gerran and seriously injures him because he has exposed him. On the research boat of the expedition, a final battle takes place between Lansing and Hartmann, in the course of which Lansing shoots Hartmann a flare in the back and he falls overboard.

Reviews

  • Cinema wrote: "The stars alone save the confused intrigue game with evil Eastern agents and Nazis in disguise."
  • Encyclopedia of the international film : "constructed Arg and not particularly exciting adventure story before the impressive backdrop of the Arctic region."
  • prisma : “Alistar McLean wrote the template for this excellently cast adventure film, which comes up with fascinating images of the Arctic ice landscape. Director Don Sharp [...] shows his feeling for subtle tension again despite the somewhat unrealistic, over-constructed story. "

Others

MacLean's novel was based on the last novel he wrote from a first-person perspective .

The film adaptation of the novel was not well received by the critics because some of the main characters were mutilated beyond recognition.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the film it is U 351
  2. ^ Cinema
  3. ↑ Bear Island in the Hell of the Arctic. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Bear Island in the Hell of the Arctic. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .