Queye TV Demon of the Himalayas
Adventure
Horror
Drama
Demon of the Himalayas
Der Dämon des Himalaya
1935
1:32
★ 8
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

Erika Dannhoff

Anne

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Professor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition

Jarmila Vacková

Ellen - his Wife

Hans Winzeler

Dr. Winkler - Expedition doctor

Hans Ertl

Hans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

Albert Höcht

Bertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

André Roch

André - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

James Belaieff

Jimmy - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition

Piero Ghiglione

Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist

Crew

Andrew Marton

Director

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Idea

Harold Dyrenforth

Idea

Eberhard Frowein

Writer

Fritz Rau

Writer

Mila Rau

Writer

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Producer

Arthur Honegger

Music

Richard Angst

Director of Photography

Johann Leonhard Jost

Producer

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