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Roald is a village on the island of Vigra in the municipality of Giske in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Roald is also the old name for the former municipality of Vigra. The 0.79-square-kilometre (200-acre) village of Roald has a population (2009) of 742, giving the village a population density of 939 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,430 /sq mi).
Roald is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the city centre of Ålesund, connected via two undersea tunnels which opened in 1987 (and will be going through extensive upgrades starting in 2008). Ålesund Airport, Vigra is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Roald.
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən]; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition (1910-12) to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to (undisputedly) reach the North Pole in 1926. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903-06). He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Amundsen was born to a family of Norwegian shipowners and captains in Borge, between the towns Fredrikstad and Sarpsborg. His father was Jens Amundsen. He was the fourth son in the family. His mother chose to keep him out of the maritime industry of the family and pressured him to become a doctor, a promise that Amundsen kept until his mother died when he was aged 21, whereupon he quit university for a life at sea. Amundsen had hidden a lifelong desire inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's crossing of Greenland in 1888 and the doomed Franklin expedition. As a result, he decided on a life of intense exploration.[citation needed]
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Genres: Documentary,Actors: Guido Knopp (producer), Rolf Schult (actor), Kristinn Thordarson (producer), Markus Lehmann-Horn (composer), Reinhold Messner (actor), Jan Messutat (actor), Oliver Halmburger (writer), Oliver Halmburger (director), Oliver Halmburger (producer), Roald Amundsen (actor), Robert Falcon Scott (actor), Roland Huntford (actor), Ranulph Fiennes (actor), Franz Fleischmann (miscellaneous crew), Georg Michael Fischer (editor),
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Plot: The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.
Keywords: 1920s, airplane, arctic, arctic-exploration, based-on-true-story, cold-weather, color-in-title, courage, crash, freezeActors: Evgeniy Evstigneev (actor), Gunnar Sønstevold (composer), Jack Fjeldstad (actor), Vladimir Gajdarov (actor), Roy Bjørnstad (actor), Sverre Wilberg (actor), Arne Aas (actor), Valeri Frid (writer), Sergey Polezhaev (actor), Bente Børsum (actress), Rolf Sand (actor), Joachim Calmeyer (actor), Yuli Dunsky (writer), Per Theodor Haugen (actor), Veslemøy Haslund (actress),
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