Demon of the Himalayas
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
as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Erika Dannhoff
as Anne
Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth
as Professor Wille - Leiter der Internationalen Himalaya-Expedition
Jarmila Vacková
as Ellen - his Wife
Hans Winzeler
as Dr. Winkler - Expedition doctor
Hans Ertl
as Hans - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
Albert Höcht
as Bertl - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
André Roch
as André - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
James Belaieff
as Jimmy - junger Bergsteiger der Himalaya-Expedition
Piero Ghiglione
as Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist
