North Face

North Face

2008 · 2 hr 6 min · Not Rated

Adventure, Biography, Drama

Directors

Philipp Stölzl

Actors

  • Benno Fürmann
  • Florian Lukas
  • Johanna Wokalek

Credits: 30

Summary

A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

More about this movie

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.