What you're always looking for, doing what we do,
is the great story.
Something that's original, and moving,
and that grabs your attention…
Iver!
…and inspires you.
I need a volunteer
to accompany me across the ice cap
to retrieve the findings
of the missing Denmark Expedition.
This story is about survival and companionship.
What really attracted me from the beginning was the setting,
where these two very different characters
are captured in the Arctic.
It's like we landed on the Moon.
When I read Ejnar Mikkelsen's autobiography,
Two Against the Ice,
I was just blown away.
It was an incredible story.
It was an incredible description of two men.
Two opposites that suddenly found themselves
in this nightmare of a situation,
and through their perseverance, through their bravery,
they managed to survive three years
on the coast of Greenland.
You never think you can't make it.
You always believe there'll be a way.
I came to know this story through Peter,
who's also a friend that I've known since I was 21
and I was at drama school, he was in film school.
You have this whole theme of friendship
that goes from behind the camera to in front of the camera,
and I believe that it's gonna add so much value to the story.
We have this epic setting,
but we also have a beautiful human story at the core.
Come on, guys!
You have Captain Mikkelsen,
who's this very charismatic leader, but he also was a dreamer.
From a young age, he had this dream
of going to the end of the world to find new territory.
To be a real explorer.
And he was drawn to the Arctic.
There's a very fundamental humanity in the story.
And he is so powerful, he's so focused,
that if he works hard enough, he will succeed.
And then he realizes that you need someone else.
You need companionship to really make it.
And then you have Iver Iversen, who is a mechanic,
who suddenly finds himself lost in the Arctic.
It's amazing to think how these two men were alone
where nobody could get to them, and how they had to survive.
When you go to the extremes, your mind will play tricks on you.
I was dreaming. I was home.
Do you have someone special back at home waiting for you?
What we do, you have to travel light.
One of the things that happens when you're stuck
is that life goes on without you,
which can be heartbreaking.
So we cut back to Copenhagen.
We cut back to the woman who's waiting for this guy.
Well, what if he actually brings her up there,
in his mind?
It's a movie I would love to see.
Like walking from Rome to Moscow.
We can do this.
To hope.