Bear Island 1979 Watch Online

Bear Island Watch Online

A solitary figure, Larsen, hurries across an arctic landscape to his tent, from where he sends an emergency radio signal, trying to contact his colleagues on the ship ‘Morning Rose’, but he is killed before he can transmit any useful information.

Expedition to Bear Island

The ‘Morning Rose’ is carrying a multinational expedition of United Nations scientists to the remote Bear Island to study “climate change”. The team is led by the German scientists Gerran and his deputy Hartman, and includes Norwegian psychiatrist Lindquist and the laconic Pole Lechinski. American biologist Frank Lansing joins the boat, where he is reunited with his friend Smithy and former colleague Rubin. Lansing’s suspicions are aroused when his belongings are searched shortly after his arrival.

Discovery and Betrayal

The expedition arrives at Bear Island, location of a NATO base and the site of a former U-boat station, and, from his German colleagues Jungbeck and Heyter, they learn that Larsen is missing. Gerran forbids access to the old U-boat base, but it becomes apparent that Lansing is very interested in it – his father was a U-boat commander who died there.

Lansing and Rubin disobey instructions and venture into the area near the U-boat base but someone triggers an avalanche using explosive charges, killing Rubin. Later, Lansing finds an underwater entrance to the U-boat base, where he finds his father’s submarine with his remains still inside it. He also finds signs that others have visited the base recently, and suspects Jungbeck and Heyter.

Final Confrontation

Lansing and Smithy decide to go to the NATO base for help, and although their snowmobile is sabotaged they both survive the explosion. Meanwhile, Lindquist finds a message left by Larsen, who had been a Norwegian agent, confirming that Jungbeck and Heyter are neo-Nazis controlled by a third expedition member codenamed Zelda. Lansing takes Lindquist to the U-boat where they find crates marked as containing explosives, but on opening one they discover it is full of gold.

Back at the base, there are more suspicious incidents: the radio mast collapses, fatally wounding Lechinski, and an explosion destroys the electrical generator, apparently killing Smithy. Lansing fingers Jungbeck and Heyter, who are arrested and locked up. The next morning, Lansing and Lindquist head out from the base, but are followed by Jungbeck and Heyter who have been released by Zelda. While lying in wait for his pursuers, Lansing realises that Hartman has given him an unloaded rifle and that he must be the mysterious Zelda. Jungbeck and Heyter track them down, but are killed by Lansing.

Lansing returns to the U-boat and finds that the gold has been removed. He meets Smithy, who is alive after all, and wants the gold for himself. Hartman waits to leave with the research boat and the gold, unaware that his henchmen are dead. A repentant Gerran, cleared of being a Nazi supporter, but ashamed of not having done more to oppose them, wants to return the gold to Norway as an act of contrition, and confronts Hartman at the harbour, but is shot and disabled.

Smithy disarms Hartman and takes him onto the boat, while Lansing sets off in pursuit. Smithy is jumped by Hartman and killed, but Lansing reaches and boards the boat and kills Hartman.

The SS logbook recovered by Lansing reveals that his father had refused to hand over the gold to the SS in 1945, and had been executed along with his crew. At the burial of his father, Smithy and Lechinski, Lansing achieves some form of closure and embraces Lindquist.

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