It is almost impossible not to be caught up in the spell of "North Face." As riveting and exhilirating as it is heartbreaking, the film is loosely based on the 1936 attempt by two mountain-climbing teams to be the first to summit the Swiss massif dubbed Eiger, the ogre.
German writer-director Philipp Stölzl has managed to so blur the line between reality and fiction that if you let yourself it can feel as if you're clinging to the frozen side of "Murder Wall" alongside them, with a 2,000-foot death drop just one misstep away.
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North Face
Based on a true story, "North Face" is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif, the Eiger, bringing two reluctant climbers, Toni Kurz (BENNO FÜRMANN) and Andi Hinterstoisser (FLORIAN LUKAS), to begin their daring ascent and attempt to scale the infamous rock face, often called the Murder Wall.
Opened January 29, 2010 Runtime:2 hr. 1 min.
Cast: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich, Erwin Steinhauer, Petra Morzé, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, Branko Samarovski
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Genres: Adventure Drama, Period Film, Adventure
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