is frozen.
- Get rid of the ice.
Cut it off.
Pomella, Alessandrini, break off the ice!
Jettison all extra weight.
Jettison the tents, the skis, the sledges!
Check all around for ice! Use hammers!
Get the valves shut!
General, we're still heavy.
General! I've lost contact!
I've lost all contact, sir!
All right. Continue transmitting.
Dr. Malmgren, give Biagi our position again.
Sergeant.
We're still dropping fast, General.
There's an escape of gas in the prow.
- Stop all engines.
- Yes, sir.
Immediately!
Number three control is jammed.
We can't move it, sir.
All right, stay at the wheel.
One engine's on fire!
I know. If we hit, we'll burn.
- Rest of the ballast!
- Out with the ballast!
All right, throw it out.
Everything except the fuel.
Lose those boxes!
- See that he gets below.
- All right.
Everything!
We're out of control, sir!
Out of my way, Zappi. I'll take the wheel.
I'll take it.
Brace for crash!
General.
Thank God you're safe.
General.
General Nobile.
It's me, Zappi.
Biagi.
- Are you...
- I'm all right.
- My leg!
- Easy!
My leg, it's smashed!
Easy!
We're finished. We're all finished.
Mariano, get up.
Get up! Are you all right.
You are all right. Now, listen to me.
You are fine.
Mariano.
Mariano, please.
It's me, Zappi.
Stop it!
Captain Zappi.
Stop it, Mariano!
We're finished, Zappi. We're finished.
Malmgren!
Zappi, General, look!
Dr. Malmgren!
Don't!
Don't do it, Dr. Malmgren!
Forgive me, please!
I'm sorry.
None of us have the right to do that.
We all need each other.
How many of us are there?
I think, eight. Eight.
Nine!
Viglieri!
Viglieri! Did you see the others?
- What happened to the others?
- Yes, I saw them.
I saw them.
I saw them in the keelson.
They blew away like a kite.
A tent! I found a tent!
Good.
We need some help! It's a tent!
I found the radio!
The radio!
We're safe!
We found the radio! Zappi, you found it!
Now we can get through to Kingsbay.
General! We are safe.
- The radio!
- Your baby, Biagi!
I told him, didn't I? I told him!
You can fix it, Biagi.
I know you can get it going.
The dog!
Titina's alive!
Your dog's alive, General!
Help me! Over here!
Here!
Here.
Pomella.
Lord, we pray thee...
release the soul of this,
thy servant Vincenzo Pomella...
from every bond of sin...
so that in the glory of the resurrection...
he may rise again to live among the saints.
Amen.
Very well. We're alive. Back to work.
Take your time, Biagi.
You'll do it.
Then we can transmit our position...
and they'll come and get us.
- How?
- Airplane.
There are no airplanes at Kingsbay.
There were no airplanes at Kingsbay.
Captain Romagna will get things moving.
Nothing, sir.
Signal Admiralty, Rome.
Still no contact, Italia airship.
Request instructions.
Instructions? You signaled for instructions?
That's right. What would you have done?
- Something!
- Yes. Initiative.
General Nobile,
I was 37 years a serving officer.
I was never in any way famous.
I was never, as you are...
the subject of newspaper articles
or public debate.
- But I never lost a ship!
- You never did anything, Romagna.
Without orders, no.
But in all my life,
I never disobeyed an order.
Can you say as much?
I never lost a ship. I never lost a man.
You didn't find any, either, did you?
With what?
And where should I have looked for them?
We had no means of knowing
what time they crashed...
within three hours.
You were last heard from here.
If you were running against the storm
and trying to make Kingsbay...
you could've been
around Franz Josef Land here.
But if you were running towards Greenland
with the gale behind you...
then you were over the Arctic Ocean here.
Within that area.
Two million square kilometers.
You could have been anywhere,
if you were still alive.
So you assumed that we were dead?
I made no assumption.
I was waiting for orders.
For five days!
We were still waiting for you there,
less than