The cloud phenomena of Maloja are so well-known that some of them have names, such as the Maloja snake, a cloud bank that winds its way through the Alpine pass like a river. Clouds pass overhead, Fanck films them, just sufficiently to get the idea, among the crags of the Engadine, and gradually he connotes the wider scene, peopling the solitude and stillness below with a person...
The Winter Olympics of 1928 in St. Moritz were the first professionally recorded on film. Fanck created a new type of Olympic chronicle: now it was a regular news coverage intended for full-fledged evening screenings at theatres. Although he had only tow cameras he managed to shoot 30000 meters of film which he used to create a poetic spectacle filled with free play of fantasy ...
Mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel: The Italian Carrel and the Englishman Whymper compete for the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Whymper's first group reached the summit, but his companions rush off on the way back, and Whymper is alleged that he had to save himself, cut the rope. Since the loser Carrel rises again on the Matterhorn, is the rope that torn,...
Peter and Maria, a newly-married American couple come to a small Swiss village to hire Glooker, a famous mountain guide, to take them up the east wall of Pitz-Palu, one of the highest peaks in the Alps. They meet Dr. Jensen, a fellow American, whose wife fell to her death on a Pitz-Palu climb twenty years ago to the day. Jensen returns each year on the date of her death in the ...
Hella (Hella Hartwich) is having trouble with her fiancee Harry (Arnold Hasenclever). Because he has more of the hots for winter sports than for Hella, she feels neglected. The engagement is ended, but Hella doesn't want to give up on him quite that easily. Her remedy To remold herself into a sportswoman, so Harry will take notice of her. With the help of two ski bums from Ham...
