Against the Ice recreates a 1909 Danish expedition across Greenland's ice, built around Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen's attempt to challenge an American territorial claim.
What is Against The Ice about?
The 2022 adventure drama follows the Alabama Expedition as it sets out to prove that northeastern Greenland was not a separate landmass, undercutting a US claim built on that theory. Once the ship is left behind with the rest of the crew, Mikkelsen sledges across the ice with his inexperienced companion Iver Iversen, and the film tracks the physical toll the journey takes on both men as conditions worsen. Director Peter Flinth stages the expedition as a survival story first, letting the historical dispute over Greenland's shape recede into the background once the two men are alone on the ice.
About the cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays Ejnar Mikkelsen and also co-wrote the film, with Joe Cole as Iver Iversen. Charles Dance, Heida Reed, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Sam Redford, Diarmaid Murtagh, and Ed Speleers round out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
A Denmark-Iceland co-production, Against the Ice belongs to the small run of Arctic survival dramas built around real early-twentieth-century expeditions rather than fiction. Its 101-minute runtime stays close to Mikkelsen and Iversen's ordeal, using the Greenland sovereignty dispute mainly as the reason the two men are out on the ice in the first place. The production favors location shooting and physical hardship over spectacle, keeping the drama grounded in the two men's endurance rather than in scale.
Watching Against The Ice on Ktime
The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the choice of either option for a story that leans on quiet, physical storytelling. As with every title in the catalogue, watching it requires logging into a free K-Time account, while the film's page can be browsed without one, and the site keeps its Farsi interface throughout for viewers in the diaspora.