North Face
A true story
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johanna Wokalek, Branko Samarovski, Georg Friedrich, Ulrich Tukur, Petra Morze, Erwin Steinhauer, Florian Lukas, Benno Fürmann, Simon Schwarz & Hanspeter Muller-Drossaart | |
Directed by | Philipp Stolzl | |
Screenwriting by | Philipp Stolzl, Christopher Silber, Johannes Naber & Rupert Henning | |
Composition by | Mischa Krausz & Christian Kolonovits | |
Director of Photography: | Kolja Brandt |
Entertainment Reviews:
North Face is at once exciting and horrifying.
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Nashville Scene
Rating: 7.1/10 --
The mountaineers climb for reasons that have little to do with nationalism - reasons the film clumsily attempts to articulate in words. It's far more successful conveying those inspirations with stunning images of them scaling daunting heights.
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NPR
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Philipp Stolzl worked in the same dangerous conditions as the original climbers, and we can feel the chill and peril in our bones. It's a shame, then, that the screenwriter, unlike the camera crew and the characters, was afflicted with such timidity.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Epic, intimate and gripping.
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Movie Nation
NORTH FACE more than delivers on the excitement and terror of this existential flirtation with one's own mortality.
Hollywood Reporter
Beautifully shot in a gritty documentary style, if you let it, Eiger's unrelenting cold and this story of love and the power of the human spirit will seep into your bones.
Los Angeles Times
Very likely the best movie ever made about mountain climbing, with some barbed commentary on life under Nazism.
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Product Description:
A handful of men set aside their differences to conquer one of Europe's tallest mountains in this period drama inspired by a true story. In 1936, Nazi Germany is looking to shore up its reputation in the eyes of the world, and after a pair of German climbers dies in an effort to climb the North face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, the state is looking to find another group who can succeed where the earlier team failed. Henry Arau (Ulrich Tukur), the publisher of one of Berlin's biggest newspapers, is a loyal son of the Third Reich, and when his editorial secretary, Luise Fellner (Johanna Wokalek), tells him she knows some climbers who would be willing to take on the Eiger, Tukur gives her a free hand to assemble a team and make this dream a reality. Close friends Toni Kurz (Benno Fürmann) and Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas) are serving in the German army when Fellner (who once dated Kurz) tries to persuade them to climb the Eiger. While Hinterstoisser is willing to take the risk in the name of patriotism, Kurz is cynical about the Third Reich and says he'll put his life on the line only for his own reasons and not to please Germany's leaders. Kurz and Hinterstoisser finally begin the climb in mid-summer, only to discover that a pair of Austrians, Willy Angerer (Simon Schwarz) and Edi Rainer (Georg Friedrich), are now challenging them in a race to the top. NORDWAND (aka NORTH FACE) was an official selection at the 2008 Locarno Film Festival.
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- UPC: 705105742953
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