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The White Hell of Pitz Palu ( German: Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) is a 1929 German silent mountain film co-directed by Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, and World War I pilot Ernst Udet. Written by Fanck and Ladislaus Vajda, the film is about a man who loses his wife in an avalanche ...
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (German: Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) is a 1929 German silent mountain film co-directed by Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, and World War I pilot Ernst Udet.
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) 1929 List. ... Pitz Palu ultimately falls into a crevasse due to a redundancy in the latter. The film does have its moments, namely ...
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- Arnold Fanck
The White Hell of Pitz Palu was filmed on location in the Bernina Range in Graubünden, Switzerland. The 1929 theatrical release starred Kurt Gerron, who was Jewish, as a night club guest. The film was edited to remove scenes featuring Gerron, and it was rereleased as a 90-minute German-language sound film in 1935.
- Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
On October 6, while climbing the Piz Palü mountain near the Swiss borders with Italy, Johannnes ignores danger warnings. Shortly after, an avalanche traps Maria within a glacier. Johannes is unable to recover her body, but becomes obsessed with doing so. He spends the following four years wandering the mountain alone, in search of Maria's corpse.
White Hell of Pitz Palu is a 1929 drama directed by the duo of Arnold Fanck and Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl and Ernst Petersen. I am not really into climbing mountains. I did a few times when i was young, but it always kinda creeped me out a bit. Also i am afraid of heights, so that is absolutely not my favorite ...
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Nov 9, 2005 · The White Hell of Pitz Palu sums up the romantic motifs of the genre invented by geologist-filmmaker Arnold Fanck, though the film’s superiority to most of the movement’s other entries might be due to the presence of G.W. Pabst, who shares directing duties with Fanck. Still, as the credits pronounce, it is a film “by” Fanck, whose fascination with vast, alpine beauty is evident from the opening shots.
