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A Frozen Dream

1997 film by Jan Troell

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ4656878 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm) is a documentary film released in 1997 as a follow-up to the 1982 Swedish movie Flight of the Eagle, both directed by Jan Troell. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon by Salomon August Andrée in 1897.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Frozen Dream” as 1997 film by Jan Troell. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Frozen, Dream and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1982, 1897—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Frozen, Dream and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “A Frozen Dream”, the useful work is to connect “1997 film by Jan Troell” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4656878. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1982 and 1897.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Frozen Dream” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.