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
Benno Fürmann
Toni Kurz
Florian Lukas
Andreas Hinterstoisser
Johanna Wokalek
Luise Fellner
Georg Friedrich
Edi Rainer
Simon Schwarz
Willy Angerer
Ulrich Tukur
Henry Arau
Branko Samarovski
Albert von Allmen
Petra Morzé
Elisabeth Landauer
Hanspeter Müller
Schlunegger
Martin Schick
Christian Rubi
Erni Mangold
Grossmutter Kurz
Johannes Thanheiser
Grossvater Kurz
Arnd Schimkat
Hotelbesitzer
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.
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