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A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.
"Oil Rocks" - behind the enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil-platform ever built, a vast city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, built by Stalin in 1949. 60 years on, "Oil Rocks" is still operational and the first western film crew ever receives access. Just imagine: 200 kilometers of bridges, thousands of oil workers, hundreds of platforms, up to nine-story buildings, a park and sports field, nothing less then an oil-rig Atlantis, only real. Combining archive footage from the Soviet era and the exclusive new footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and it's inhabitants.
The coastal "motorway" that links the Icelanders together is usually referred to less euphemistically by continental tourists who are used to asphalt or concrete. But to some Icelandic off-road enthusiasts it is much too smooth and unchallenging. Therefore they decided to cross the country through the uninhabited highlands from the est to the east. 800 kilometers of lava, strong rivers, mud and glaciers required specially adapted vehicles, but when winter suddenly fell with thick snow and serious accidents, the future of even the most carefully prepared expedition was thrown into jeopardy.
Singing at La Scala, the world's most famous opera house and the Mecca for opera lovers, must be every singer's ultimate dream. As the tenor Kristján Jóhannsson sings his first major part on the famous stage, we learn about the man and his career.
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About three Icelanders living in London, leading very different lives. The film concentrates on the events of one day in June, culminating in an independence celebration at the Icelandic embassy, where all three meet up.
For centuries driftwood from the European mainland and all teh way from Siberia has washed up on the shores of Iceland. This film shows a driftwood expedition casting off at a fishing village on the east coast of Iceland, bound for the deserted Langanes headland in the far north-east. The film not only shows the collecting of driftwood, but also deals with the history of the settlement on the headland, narrated in part by the last farmer to leave.
Though small, the Icelandic pony is widely renowned for its strength and endurance. However, the vast mountainous coastal region of northwest Iceland was still considered too rugged for even the sturdiest of those horses until a dozen riders and forty horses sailed north to face this deserted challenge. if successful they would be the first to travel through this gigantic landscape of cliffs and glaciers.
Blizzards and crevasses make the motorized journey over the glacier almost as picturesque as the exploration under it. Together these two faces of the glacier make a unique adventure film in an amazing landscape.
They call him Krakatau Dundee, the man who spends much of his working life in remote and hostile deserts, studying volcanic activity. They mystery of Krakatau, the island that all but disappeared from the face of the earth in an explosion 100 years ago has been the centre of his longtime studies. We learn about the man and his work as we follow him and his fellow scientists from their camp on an uninhabited jungle island in Indonesia, to the top of the mountains and the bottom of the sea.
