Hi,

Iīm looking for a film (I donīt know the name): Maybe I can get it on VHS or DVD.
The film is in black and white, as fare as I can remember. Maybe it is
a russian film. It is about a group of men, that crashed with an
zeppelin in the middle of the north pole (or the south pole). They
donīt find a way to escape this situation and some of the men die.
Then some guys tried to fix the zeppelin and they manage to start with
it, while a few others stay, because they think it is not save to
start with the damaged zeppelin. Well, the guys with the zeppelin
crashed and died. Then one of the remaining guys find to fix the radio
with part of a pencil and finally a few guys get home.

Is there somebody who can tell me the name of the film and where i can
get a copy on DVD or VHS (maybe in german)

Thanx

Hello.

I believe that your movie was Krasnaya Palatka (1971) (aka "The Red
Tent" aka "La Tenda Rosa").

See this description from the Internet Movie Database:

'"The Red Tent", as it was called when released in most of the world,
is a fascinating historical epic of Arctic exploration. In the 1920's,
Italian General Nobile sought to be the first to fly over the North
Pole in a dirigible, of all things! Much of the movie focuses on these
efforts; unfortunately, the winds kick up and the air ship is ripped
apart. Surviving crewmen end up in various locations on the ice and
then procede to battle the elements and polar bears. The great arctic
explorer Raoul Amundsen is called in as are the Soviets who pick up
radio messages of the disaster; an ice breaker is then dispatched to
assist in the rescue. Yes, it is an involved and realistiuc
spectacle.'
source: Imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067315/

NTSC format video available from Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630021625X/

The German title of the film was "Das rote Zelt." See kino-film.de
http://www.kino-filme.de/filmanzeige.php?filmid=Das%20rote%20Zelt

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search strategy:
blimp movies, "north pole"

I hope this helps.

1 A Hit! Thanks, very good!!!