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Der Berg des Schicksals (1924)
Character: Sein Sohn
After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his mother makes him promise never to attempt it. Events eventually force her to release him from the promise, and he ascends the mountain successfully.
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Von der Liebe besiegt (1956)
Character: Zurwalden, Obmann der Bergführer
Mario Clar is the successful co-owner of an engineering firm in Zurich. The news that a bridge he designed has collapsed, killing 43 people, hits this dependable man all the harder. Mario’s feelings of guilt are so intense that he decides to end his life in the mountains.
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Die heiligen drei Brunnen (1930)
Character: Christomanus
Long ago, as a young man, the Alpine herdsman Christomanus left his village to seek his fortune elsewhere. Now he returns as a qualified and respected engineer. He stops at the inn “Zum Weißen Hirsch,” run by his old childhood friend Louis, and finds shelter there.
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Der Kampf ums Matterhorn (1928)
Character: Jean-Antoine Carrel
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
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Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
Character: Himself
A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.
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Der Ruf des Nordens (1929)
Character: Peter Helling
Peter Helling, the only survivor of a polar expedition, returns once more to the eternal ice. Why he calls his fate out again, what has happened? At that time he had set out with his best friend Svensson, to search for the missing friend of the woman they both love and for which they fought. In desperation, the men drag through the deep snow and the icy Arctic storms.
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The Challenge (1938)
Character: Jean Antoine Carrel
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Condottieri (1937)
Character: Giovanni Lombardo
Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of the idea of a united Italy.
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Der heilige Berg (1926)
Character: Karl
In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing rifts in all relationships.
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Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief (2008)
Character: Self (archive footage)
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.
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Der Berg ruft (1938)
Character: Jean-Antoine Carrel
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
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Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
Character: Himself
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
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Der verlorene Sohn (1934)
Character: Tonio Feuersinger
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
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Der große Sprung (1927)
Character: Toni
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
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Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936)
Character: Johann August Suter
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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Berge in Flammen (1931)
Character: Florian Dimai
Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.
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The Doomed Battalion (1932)
Character: Florian Di Mai
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
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Der Rebell (1932)
Character: Severin Anderlan
A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
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