The Mountain Calls
The Mountain Calls | |
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Directed by | Luis Trenker |
Starring | Luis Trenker |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Language | German |
The Mountain Calls (German: Der Berg ruft) is a film directed by Luis Trenker which recreates the struggle between Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel for the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
This German film is one of two 1938 Trenker remakes of Struggle for the Matterhorn in which Trenker acted in 1928, the other being the British The Challenge.
Plot[]
The Italian mountaineer Jean-Antoine Carrel wants to be the first man to reach the summit of the Matterhorn. He meets the British mountaineer Whymper and they decide to climb together. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two men try it on the same day with two different teams, Carrel on the Italian side and Whymper on the Swiss side. The latter will successfully reach the summit along with his six companions, Hudson, Hadow, Douglas and the guides Croz and Taugwalder father and son. Only Whymper and the guides Taugwalder will survive the descent.
Cast[]
- Luis Trenker ... Jean Antoine Carrel
- ... Edward Whymper
- Heidemarie Hatheyer ... Felicitas
- Peter Elsholtz ... Giordano
- Lucie Höflich ... Mother Carell
- Blandine Ebinger ... Miss Sweaton
- Umberto Sacripante ... Luc Meynet
- ... Hudson
- ... Hadow
- Kunibert Gensichen ... Douglas
- ... Guide Croz
- Friedrich Ulmer ... Favre
- Bruno Hübner ... Stefano
- Armin Schweizer ... Seiler
- Lotte Spira ... Frau Seiler
See also[]
External links[]
- Der Berg ruft! is available for free download at the Internet Archive (subtitles in French)
- Der Berg ruft! at IMDb
- 1938 films
- German-language films
- 1930s adventure drama films
- 1930s historical films
- German adventure drama films
- German historical films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- British films
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in Italy
- Films set in the Alps
- Films set in the 1860s
- Mountaineering films
- Matterhorn
- German multilingual films
- German film remakes
- Sound film remakes of silent films
- German black-and-white films
- 1938 multilingual films
- 1938 drama films
- Adventure film stubs