Storm Over Mont Blanc

Storm Over Mont Blanc

93 mins | Drama, Adventure | Dec. 25, 1930

In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hanes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, Storm over Mont Blanc is a "quintessential " mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.

Storm Over Mont Blanc

93 mins | Drama, Adventure | Dec. 25, 1930

Storm Over Mont Blanc
In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hanes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, Storm over Mont Blanc is a "quintessential " mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers
Original title Stürme über dem Mont Blanc
Directors Arnold Fanck
Writers Arnold Fanck, Carl Mayer

Cast

Sepp Rist

as Wetterwart Hannes

Leni Riefenstahl

as Hella Armstrong

Friedrich Kayssler

as Astronom Armstrong

Ernst Udet

as Flieger Udet

Mathias Wieman

as Organist Walter Petersen