Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief

The story

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.

Cast

K Kurt DiembergerSelf J Jean AfanassieffSelf L Lothar BrandlerSelf L Leo DickinsonSelf P Philipp StölzlSelf G Gaston RébuffatSelf (archive footage) C Catherine DestivelleSelf P Patrick BerhaultSelf (archive footage) J Jean-Marc BoivinSelf (archive footage) A Alexander HuberSelf T Thomas HuberSelf (archive footage) R Roger MooreSelf (archive footage)

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W Willy BognerSelf F Florian LukasSelf (archive footage) B Benno FürmannSelf (archive footage) G Georg FriedrichSelf (archive footage) L Luis TrenkerSelf (archive footage) J Johanna WokalekSelf (archive footage) G Gerhard BaurSelf M Matthias FanckSelf P Peter LatzkoSelf M Max ReichelSelf F Franz HinterbrandnerSelf A Arnold FanckSelf (archive footage) H Haroun TazieffSelf (archive footage) M Maurice BaquetSelf (archive footage) L Leni RiefenstahlSelf (archive footage) S Sepp RistSelf (archive footage) S Simon SchwarzSelf (archive footage) U Ulrich TukurSelf (archive footage) E Eddie BirchSelf (archive footage) N Norbert HandwerkSelf (archive footage) B Brian MolyneuxSelf (archive footage)