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Arnold Fanck

4 films · 1920 to 1928
Born 6 March 1889, Frankenthal · Died 28 September 1974

Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml.

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Arnold Fanck

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Films

The Holy Mountain
The Holy Mountain
1926
The White Stadium
The White Stadium
1928
The Wonder of the Snowshoe, 2. Part - A Fox Hunt on Skis through the Engadine
The Wonder of the Snowshoe, 2. Part - A Fox Hunt on Skis through the Engadine
1922
Das Wunder des Schneeschuhs
Das Wunder des Schneeschuhs
1920

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