Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief

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

Self

Jean Afanassieff

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Lothar Brandler

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Leo Dickinson

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Philipp Stölzl

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Gaston Rébuffat

Self (archive footage)

Catherine Destivelle

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Patrick Berhault

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Marc Boivin

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Alexander Huber

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Thomas Huber

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Roger Moore

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Willy Bogner

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Florian Lukas

Self (archive footage)

Benno Fürmann

Self (archive footage)

Georg Friedrich

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Luis Trenker

Self (archive footage)

Johanna Wokalek

Self (archive footage)

Gerhard Baur

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Matthias Fanck

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Peter Latzko

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Max Reichel

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Franz Hinterbrandner

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Arnold Fanck

Self (archive footage)

Haroun Tazieff

Self (archive footage)

Maurice Baquet

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Leni Riefenstahl

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Sepp Rist

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Simon Schwarz

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Ulrich Tukur

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Eddie Birch

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Norbert Handwerk

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Brian Molyneux

Self (archive footage)

Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief

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