Northern Lights (German: Nordlicht) is a 1938 German adventure film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and starring René Deltgen, Ferdinand Marian and Hilde Sessak. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in àlesund in Norway and the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse.
Norwegian fur trappers Halvard has been missing for two years after his ship didn't return home from a trip to Greenland. Assumed to be dead his former fiancée is now married to Olaf, but still haunted by grief for her lost lover. To prove to her that he is a man worth of her, Olaf signs up to go on an expedition to Greenland. Yet he finds himself on the same ship as Halvard who has turned up after all this time, and tension flares between the two rivals in love. When only Olaf returns from a confrontation with a polar bear, everyone suspects him of Halvard's murder.