Luglio1936, A. Hinterstoisser and T. Kurz attempt the Eiger north face together with an Austrian climber who follows them. Anyone who has read a bit 'of mountaineering history certainly knows the drama of those days is recalled with good accuracy and precision from the movie Nordwand (North Face) of P. Stölzl. For once, a film that does not climb too far and does not paint the climbers as Superman or Spider-Man (eg cliffhanger rubbish and the like) but it tells the human adventure of four very tough competition climbers caught in the vortex of a 'premiere' and the Nazi propaganda of the Germanic superman. The reconstruction of the scene of rock climbing is really good scale, and who knows how to recognize small details that others do not notice but that make plausible a certain situation, no jumping from one peak to another, no serac someone that's been flying for 150 yards and leaves him miraculously on a ledge from which you save pulling on the rope by force of arms in the air. A film so that you can see with interest and which is also well set with split of everyday life. The dotted line of the characters is done with care and climbers are seen here with their exaltation and their doubts, their strengths and their weaknesses, the audacity of Hinterstoisser opening the crossing which now bears his name, balanced by the calm and sense of reality Kurz who proved to be real head rope. Of course, as a film and documentary, the director had to put the sentimental side of Kurz's girlfriend that I do not know if it is true and correct but that does not infringe too much from the rest. Go and see and ricordatevene when climbing with boots and nylon strings, make the comparison with the equipment of the four, and admire more and more certain climbers of the '30s, as I did and I do too.
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