Titina

Movie (2022)

Starring (original Norwegian voices):
Jan Gunnar Røise (Umberto Nobile)
Kåre Conradi (Roald Amundsen)
Anne Marit Jacobsen (Betty, Amundsen's maid)
John F. Brungot (Benito Mussolini)

Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautical engineer and airship designer, leads a quiet life with his beloved dog Titina. One day, the famous Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen contacts him and orders an airship to conquer the North Pole. Nobile seized the opportunity to make history. He takes Titina with him, and the unlikely trio sets off on an expedition to the last place on Earth to be discovered.

Note: This is an animated film. The aircraft shown in it are therefore not actual aircraft, however, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible.

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

(center) Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde of Air France.

Semi-rigid Airship

Nobile first airship design was of this type.

Gas balloon & Latham 47

At Amundsen's home, model of gas balloon (Bratvaag of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andrée who deadly failed to reach by this mean the North Pole in 1897) and a Latham 47 flying boat (Note: at this stage of the story, years before the crash of Nobile, the Latham 47 wasn't even on the drawing board!).

Nobile N1 Norge

Seen on the drawing table, blue print and flying.

Norge in Ny-Ålesund, Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard (7 May 1926).

Severall archive footage are used showing both outside and inside (cabin and corridor) during flight or at station.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Others / Lighter-Than-Air).

Umberto Nobile (21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) during the departure from the base on the forward control car.

Final fate :

Generic Italian Aircraft

Screenshot of generic aircraft once Nobile is back in Italy (mostly high wing aircraft).

Various airplane, airship and balloon on Admunsen wall of memories.

Nobile N4 Italia

Italia is seen only through animated footage.

Latham 47.02

The second (prototype) Latham 47 flying boat was used to search Nobile's crew, piloted by Frenchman René Guilbaud and three more French crewmen and the Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson. They picked up the explorer Roald Amundsen on 18 June 1928 at Tromsø, Norway and no one ever sees them again. The aircraft disappeared without a trace until, on 31 August the same year, the torn-off port float was found.

For artistic consideration, Roald Amundsen is seen alone at the controls looking for the Red Tent. The whole rescue effort is developped in a 1969 Soviet movie : Krasnaya palatka.

Several people are drawn (slighty caricatured) but recognizable. René Guilbaud, French pilot of the Latham 47.02, is among those people and feature in the center of this action :