Topic: Norwand (North Face) - Question for our german friends.

[Eric]

I watched this movie yesterday and I am wondering how close to the truth it is.  Is this completely made up like most american 'true story" movies or is it actually historically accurate ? 

Oh, I'm note sure actually that it's a german movie, I believe it could be swiss

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844457/plotsummary

[GSyren]

For the most part Nordwand is historically correct. Some artistic license has been taken, but as far as I know not very much. A great film, by the way.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

From what I know the movie is quite close to the historical events.
It's not a documentary though.

Quite a good documentary about the events from 1936 is a feature that is (too) about the 1985 attempt to complete the route chosen in1936 by Toni Kurz and his companions.



If you don't want to click through the 8 parts (and ~ 75 minutes):
It is available on DVD too

[Eric]

I suppose whatever happened on the mountain had to be imagined by the writer though.  How would anyone know anything about the details since all four climbers died ?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The thing about this attempt was, that it was the first time that it was completely observed by cameras from the ground-station.
After all the Nazis used (or at least wanted to use) this for their propaganda and they were real filing-freaks.

So when it comes to dialogues, they most likely are invented, the events didn't need to be.

[Eric]

Thanks for the information Michael, the movie does not really show this.  It shows people looking at them with telescopes but I did not realize that everything was filmed.