The Red Tent is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The film is based on the story of the mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the Airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and Mikhail Kalatozov from Nagibin's novel of the same title. Nagibin couldn't complete the script due to a series of conflicts with the producer, who insisted on expanding the role of his mistress Claudia Cardinale, and it was completed by de Concini and Bolt. The film begins... in Rome many years after the expedition. Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during the disaster and its aftermath. He imagines his apartment turned into a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen, Nobile, famed aviator Lundborg, Captain Samoilovich of the Soviet Icebreaker Krasin and his crew. As they try Nobile, the events of the expedition and its failure are depicted.
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| Release date: | 1969 |
| Directed by: | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Franco Cristaldi |
| Editor: | Peter Zinner, John Shirley |
| Music by: | Ennio Morricone |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action |