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.
Directors: Matthias Fanck, Hans-Jürgen Panitz.
https://www.mntnfilm.com/en/film/faszination-bergfilm-himmelhoch-und-abgrundtief-2008
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Kurt Diemberger as Self |
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Jean Afanassieff as Self |
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Lothar Brandler as Self |
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Leo Dickinson as Self |
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Philipp Stölzl as Self |
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Gaston Rébuffat as Self (archive footage) |
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Catherine Destivelle as Self |
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Patrick Berhault as Self (archive footage) |
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Jean-Marc Boivin as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexander Huber as Self |
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Thomas Huber as Self (archive footage) |
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Roger Moore as Self (archive footage) |
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Willy Bogner as Self |
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Florian Lukas as Self (archive footage) |
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Benno Fürmann as Self (archive footage) |
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Georg Friedrich as Self (archive footage) |
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Luis Trenker as Self (archive footage) |
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Johanna Wokalek as Self (archive footage) |
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Gerhard Baur as Self |
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Matthias Fanck as Self |
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Peter Latzko as Self |
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Max Reichel as Self |
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Franz Hinterbrandner as Self |
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Arnold Fanck as Self (archive footage) |
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Haroun Tazieff as Self (archive footage) |
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Maurice Baquet as Self (archive footage) |
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Leni Riefenstahl as Self (archive footage) |
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Sepp Rist as Self (archive footage) |
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Simon Schwarz as Self (archive footage) |
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Ulrich Tukur as Self (archive footage) |
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Eddie Birch as Self (archive footage) |
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Norbert Handwerk as Self (archive footage) |
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Brian Molyneux as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Matthias Fanck | Director |
| Directing | Hans-Jürgen Panitz | Director |
