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.
Direction
Trenker's narcissistic self-mythologizing is accidentally fascinating
Cinematography
Actual Tyrolean locations that dwarf the human drama
Director
Luis Trenker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Trenker was a fascist sympathizer whose alpine epics were later co-opted by Nazi cinema—watching this now carries uncomfortable historical weight.
Curtis Bernhardt fled Germany shortly after; this is one of his last German films before a Hollywood career directing Bette Davis melodramas.
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