Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (1930)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Arnold Fanck

Writer:

Arnold Fanck (writer)

Release Date:

25 March 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio...

Plot Keywords:

Climbing

Cast

Leni Riefenstahl	...	Hella Armstrong
Sepp Rist	...	Hannes
Ernst Udet	...	Udet, Pilot
Mathias Wieman	...	Walter Petersen
Friedrich Kayßler	...	Armstrong, Hellas Father
Alfred Beierle
Ernst Petersen
David Zogg	...	Skifahrer
Beni Führer	...	Skifahrer
Rähmi	...	Bergführer
Guzzi Lantschner	...	Bergführer
Benno Leubner	...	Bergführer
Harald Reinl	...	Bergführer Hella Armstrong (Double)
Luggi Foeger		(as Lucki Föger)
Claus von Suchotzky	...	Pilot des Aufnahmeflugzeuges

Also Known As:

Avalanche (USA)
Storm Over Mont Blanc

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Tobis Klangfilm)

Filming Locations:

Arosa, Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland

Company:

Aafa-Film AG

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

those guys were lunatics or something

A few years before Leni Riefenstahl infamously filmed "Triumph of the Will", she starred in this early action flick, portraying a woman going up Mont Blanc to rescue a friend trapped by a snowstorm. When you look at how people hiked over those mountains, it starts looking like they were crazy or something; I mean, what kind of person walks that close to a crevasse?! But no matter, "Sturme uber dem Mont Blanc" is still a pretty interesting movie. I seem to recall that I heard something about Hitler seeing Ms. Riefenstahl in these sorts of movies and growing to admire her, and thus he decided that she would be the perfect person to film his propaganda documentary. Weird how these things work out.