

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Cinematography
The Eiger photographs itself; humans are specks.
Practical Effects
Real locations, real cold, real suffering on faces.
Direction
Stölzl makes propaganda watch itself watching death.

Director
Philipp Stölzl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Toni Kurz's body hung visible on the North Face for years, becoming its own grim tourist attraction.
The 1936 Eiger disaster became Nazi propaganda about heroic German sacrifice—this film deliberately complicates that myth.