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About
German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).
Director
Producers
Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Johann Leonhard Jost
Studio
Tramontana
Original Title
Der Dämon des Himalaya
Original Language
German
Keywords
himalaya mountain range
mountain
asia
expedition
mountaineer
talkie
rucksack
climbing
back pack
black and white
spirit
demon
mountain climbing
mountaineering
backpack
mountain country
eurasia
climber
gasherbrum
alpinism
alpine climbing
climb
soundie
german cinema
alpinist
alpinismo
fiction
asian man
fictional
aventură
mountain sports
alpinisme
eurasian
asian men
mountain expedition
drama
mountain climber
mountainclimbing
adventure
himalaya
mountains
mountain film
Cast
Full credits →G
Gustav Diessl
Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
E
Erika Dannhoff
Anne
G
Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Professor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition
J
Jarmila Vacková
Ellen - his Wife
H
Hans Ertl
Hans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
A
Albert Höcht
Bertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
J
Josef Dahmen
P
Paul Rehkopf
R
Rudolf Biebrach
V
Valeska Stock
E
Ernst Karchow
R
Rio Nobile
