Directed by Philipp Stölzl from a screenplay by Stölzl, Christoph Silber, Johannes Naber, and Rupert Henning, the stunningly shot mountain-climbing drama North Face is currently playing in the Los Angeles area at Encino’s Town Center 5, West La’s Royal Theatre, and Pasadena’s Playhouse 7, in addition to Irvine’s University Town Center. The adventure drama stars Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich, and Ulrich Tukur (one of the leads in The White Ribbon). A tale entwining melodrama, Nazis, Aryan superiority ideology, mind-blowing vistas, and some pretty awesome stunts, North Face won the best screenplay and best cinematography (Kolja Brandt) awards from the German Film Critics Association, and best cinematography and sound awards from the German Film Academy. The [...]...
- 2/16/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The best produced narrative fiction climbing film of all time. A legendary story coupled with simple but extremely effective camera work and heroism where one least expects it Writer Director Philipp Stölzl took home the 2009 German Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay along with co-writers Christoph Silber, Rupert Henning and Johannes Naber for this riveting adventure thriller. The setting is the deadly north face of the Eiger, still unconquered at the story.s setting in 1936. Nazi propaganda urges young climbers to take on the nearly vertical ice covered rock massif in the name of the Aryan warrior spirit. Other Aryans watch from telescopes from the deck of the nearby hotel as the naïve gladiators battle the face and end...
- 1/29/2010
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Taking your vacation at the beach is Ok for tourists, if you can tolerate the sand and the dampness, but visiting the mountains is for travelers. The mountains can offer the kinds of demands that the ocean rarely does, and we.re not talking about the challenge of meeting fellow singles at the Concord in New York.s Catskills ranges. We.re talking extreme sport: climbing the heights, which can be something else if your most exhausting task has been to ascend the endless stairs on the F line in New York.s 63rd Street station. Nor do we refer to using a walking stick to amble up a sierra that points up from the ground at a thirty-degree angle. Philipp Stölz shows the way in his documentary-style drama based on an actual event that finds pairs of athletes who defy death (or do not as the specific case may...
- 1/13/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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