Demon of the Himalayas
German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).
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Cast
Gustav Diessl
Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Erika Dannhoff
Anne
Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Professor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition
Jarmila Vacková
Ellen - his Wife
Hans Winzeler
Dr. Winkler - Expedition doctor
Hans Ertl
Hans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
Albert Höcht
Bertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
André Roch
André - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
James Belaieff
Jimmy - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
Piero Ghiglione
Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist
Dalib
Tibetanischer Träger
Machmad
Tibetanischer Träger