Demon of the Himalayas

The story

German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).

Cast

G Gustav DiesslDr. Norman - Ethnologe E Erika DannhoffAnne G Günther Oskar DyhrenfurthProfessor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition J Jarmila VackováEllen - his Wife H Hans WinzelerDr. Winkler - Expedition doctor H Hans ErtlHans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition A Albert HöchtBertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition A André RochAndré - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition J James BelaieffJimmy - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition P Piero GhiglioneDer italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist D DalibTibetanischer Träger M MachmadTibetanischer Träger

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J Josef Dahmen P Paul Rehkopf R Rudolf Biebrach V Valeska Stock E Ernst Karchow K Karl Jönsson R Rio Nobile J Jenny Leyde M Marcel KurzOther member of the expedition