Movies: Arnold Fanck

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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....

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards....

Hannes is employed at the Mont Blanc Observatory; the only outside connection is a pilot and Hella over the radio. Hella ascends the mountain but her father dies along the way....

The exploits of village girl Hannes and her attempts to master skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local expert....

The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921....

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Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo ha...

Documentation of a journey along the Great Wall of China to the Ku-Pei-Kuo pass fortress....

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him....

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland....

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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 prom...

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language version of S.O.S. Eisberg.)...

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African expeditions....

IM KAMPF MIT DEM BERGE: IN STURM UND EIS, a mountain-and-snow adventure film directed by his friend Arnold Fanck in 1920....

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains....

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dan...

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 popul...

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