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Demon of the Himalayas (1935)
Directed by Andrew Marton
Adventure, Horror, Drama · 1h 32m
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).
Cast
Gustav Diessl
Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Jarmila Vacková
Ellen - his Wife
Crew
- Director
- Andrew Marton
- Writer
- Eberhard Frowein, Fritz Rau, Mila Rau
- Director of Photography
- Richard Angst
- Editor
- Carl Forcht
- Producer
- Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Johann Leonhard Jost, Edgar Neumann
Details
- Original title
- Der Dämon des Himalaya
- Release date
- 1935-03-16
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Adventure, Horror, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Switzerland, Germany
- Production
- Tramontana