North Face

IMDb link: 0844457
IMDb rating: 7.4 (17,086 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography, Sport, History
Director: Philipp Stolzl
Cast: Simon Schwarz, Johanna Wokalek, Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas and others

Release date: 23 Oct 2008
Release year: 2008
Runtime: 126 minutes
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Keywords: switzerland, mountain climbing, nazi germany, 1930s, based on true story, snow adventure, mountain adventure, reference to kurt alois josef johann schuschnigg, alps, alpinist

Plot:

Based on a true story, North Face is a survival drama film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation's Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed North Face of the Swiss massif--the Eiger--two reluctant German climbers begin their daring ascent.

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