Kokumin no chikai

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 193738 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the JapaneseChinese war A Japanese production it was nevertheless made with German involvement in the form of skiing champion Sepp Rist and celebrated cinematographer Richard Angst who also contributed to the script Both had regularly worked with the inventor of the mountain film genre Dr Arnold Fanck who had helmed the GermanJapanese coproduction Die Tochter des Samurai also shot by Angst the year before Angst apparently stayed in Japan until mid1939 when he returned to Germany carrying this film with him Angst submitted it to the German censors later that year but for reasons unknown to me it took three more years before the film was finally shown in Germany under the name Das heilige Ziel The Holy Aim Karargara