Arnold Fanck

Kleines Zelt und große Liebe (1956)

Ein Robinson (1940)

The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long ...

Die Wildnis stirbt! (1936)

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African expeditions. ...

Rêve éternel (1935)

Der ewige Traum (1934)

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous ...

Die Seehunde (1934)

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards. ...

S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language version of S.O.S. Eisberg. ...

S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. ...

Slalom (1932)

A romantic comedy mostly set on skis: a girl tries to show her boyfriend that she is just as good at winter sports, and gets help from two other boys. ...

The White Ecstasy (1931)

The exploits of village girl Hannes and her attempts to master skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local expert. ...

Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und Hollywood (2018)

Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und Abgrundtief (2008)

A fascinating chronology of 100 years of mountain film history in the Alps. This documentary focuses primarily on films shot on the Matterhorn, the Eiger, and the Grandes Jorasses, considered until the 1930s as the "last problems of the Alps," and shows th ...