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Jan 28, 2010 · As you watch Philipp Stölzl’s gripping survival drama, “North Face,” it is impossible not to put yourself in the boots of the mountaineers clinging to a sheer, icy rock face during a ...
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North Face (German: Nordwand) is a 2008 German historical fiction film directed by Philipp Stölzl and starring Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, and Ulrich Tukur. Based on the famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face, the film is about two German climbers involved in a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in ...
Brave Red Flower of the North: Directed by Yasuo Furuhata. With Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Shingo Yamashiro, Bin Amatsu.
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Aug 22, 2021 · Once the summits were reached, climbers looked for new challenges, with the Eiger’s north face being the most obvious. BBC’s Wall of Death explores the history of the “wall of death” and gets to the heart of one of Europe’s most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome ...
Feb 24, 2010 · Consider "North Face," the bone-chilling, superbly mounted record of an assault on the north face of the Eiger, which is known by the grim understatement as "the last remaining problem in the Alps." The movies have long been convinced themselves that any story can be improved by adding a romance.
Oct 23, 2008 · With Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz. A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken.
