Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief
04/12/2008
A fascinating chronology of 100 years of mountain film history in the Alps. This documentary focuses primarily on films shot on the Matterhorn, the Eiger, and the Grandes Jorasses, considered until the 1930s as the "last problems of the Alps," and shows the evolution of mountain filmmaking through numerous excerpts from documentaries and feature films – notably on the Matterhorn in 1901. The genre, appropriated as a means of mass exaltation by "fascist" regimes during the Second World War, was reinvented in the 1950s by Gaston Rebuffat, Marcel Ichac, and Lionel Terray in the Mont Blanc massif, avant-garde figures of French mountain cinema, who reintroduced, beyond performance, the values of the mountains – and in color – poetry, humor, and sharing among people from all walks of life.
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Kurt Diemberger
as Self
Jean Afanassieff
as Self
Lothar Brandler
as Self
Leo Dickinson
as Self
Philipp Stölzl
as Self
Gaston Rébuffat
as Self (archive footage)
Catherine Destivelle
as Self
Patrick Berhault
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Boivin
as Self (archive footage)
Alexander Huber
as Self
Thomas Huber
as Self (archive footage)
Roger Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Willy Bogner
as Self
Florian Lukas
as Self (archive footage)
Benno Fürmann
as Self (archive footage)
Georg Friedrich
as Self (archive footage)
Luis Trenker
as Self (archive footage)
Johanna Wokalek
as Self (archive footage)
Gerhard Baur
as Self
Matthias Fanck
as Self
Peter Latzko
as Self
Max Reichel
as Self
Franz Hinterbrandner
as Self
Arnold Fanck
as Self (archive footage)
Haroun Tazieff
as Self (archive footage)
Maurice Baquet
as Self (archive footage)
Leni Riefenstahl
as Self (archive footage)
Sepp Rist
as Self (archive footage)
Simon Schwarz
as Self (archive footage)
Ulrich Tukur
as Self (archive footage)
Eddie Birch
as Self (archive footage)
Norbert Handwerk
as Self (archive footage)
Brian Molyneux
as Self (archive footage)
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