The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1930)
With Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Udet, Ernst Petersen, Kurt Gerron
Directed by Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (German: Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) is a 1929 German silent mountain film co-directed by Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, and World War I pilot Ernst Udet. Written by Fanck and Ladislaus Vajda, the film is about a man who loses his wife in an avalanche while climbing the Piz Palü mountain, and spends the next few years searching the mountain alone for her body. Four years later he meets a young couple who agree to accompany him on his next climb. The White Hell of Pitz Palu was filmed on location in the Bernina Range in Graubünden, Switzerland. The film is regarded as one of the earliest examples of moun
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