Movie
The Mountain Calls
1938 · 95 min
A tense, earnest mountaineering drama with a melancholic edge, slow-burn pacing, and a tragic sense of ambition and loss.
- Directed by
- Luis Trenker
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser, Heidemarie Hatheyer
- Tagline
- Feature film about the tragic first ascent of the Matterhorn 1865
- Overview
- During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers ploto to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. There is another version of the film titled The Challenge, shot the same year in English.
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- Directed by
- Luis Trenker
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser, Heidemarie Hatheyer
