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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Blistering performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

although it was Cecil b.Demille that liberated the sound camera out of the sound proof booth late in 29,talking equipment was very cumbersome. I had thought this was Luis Trenkers first talkie,but I checked it and it wasn't.I feel many of the scenes including ,some of the dialog, was shot silent and the sound effects and dialog was added later,although there are scenes that give the impression of sound recording on the dot too.Luis Trenker plays Turi,a mountain guide,He and his friends are involved in ski Olympics.Renate Muller plays Mary, a tourist from Paris and Leo Puekert plays her father.Mary meets Turi and his two other ski friend when she gets in an accident on the ski slopes. He starts having interest,which later upsets Anni the hired cook,played by Maria Matray.She works and live with his mother, play by Sophie Pagay.Then one of the other tourist,I think Morel, falls interest in Mary too.The problem arises when Turi is asked by Morel to take him on a mountain tour .He comes back by himself claiming that morel wanted to stay in the mountains ,Renate find it strange. The hotel clerk tries to call him ,but, he's not there.A search is made and no one can find him.Luis is charge with possible murder.But the jailer lets him out to ski contest.He finally Finds Morell.Morel was trying to scam insurance company by pretending to be dead to get the insurance company give him money.Luis ends up taking him back With the aid of Renate on a motorcycle bring Turri back just in time for the ski contest. The ski photography is breath taking. I had thought Luis Trenker was tall.But in this film he looked 5 feet 7 or 8. excellent early German talkie and action classic.digital print. Available a German war films dot com.08/12/12.08/14/12 Made a mistake.It was not Morel that Turri took on a mountain tour.It was Gregor Milacz, played by Michael Von Newlinsky

Some have said that mountain films are for Germany what westerns are for the US. I wouldn't fully endorse that, but it has some points going for it.As the heydays of German mountain films were between the 1920s and 1950s, there is obviously quite an overlap with Hitler's Third Reich (1933-45). And then consider Leni Riefenstahl who started as actress in mountain films, to become one of the most notorious Nazi propaganda film directors.. but I digress.This movie is set in Switzerland, at some European Ski Championship. Initially we're introduced to the German team of three young men, Turri (Luis Trenker) being the star of them. Funny that he also works as a mountain-climbing guide, a job typically done by local residents.As plots go, he is adored both by local girl Anni who lives where he lives, and "Mary", daughter of a French businessman/tourist staying at the mountain hotel. Then there's Milacs, another tourist who asks Mary to dance, but is called away by telephone. Rivalry seems to build up... but early next morning, Milacs asks for Turri to bring him up a mountain.Weather turns very bad, avalanches and all; Turri returns alone, reporting that Milacs fired him and went alone to a mountain cabin. However, a phone call (?) to that cabin reveals that he never arrived, so a search team on skis, with torches, sets out to find Milacs. Great visuals there, especially in a glacier cave.They don't find him, but a broken ski stick and his rucksack with diary notes indicating that he fears Turri. This evidence suffices to have Turri accused of murder, reported on Paris-Soir.Turri is arrested, but talks the warden into letting him go for 24h to solve the case, which he does (Milacs hides in another cabin and pretends to be dead to let his wife cash in on his life insurance). Turri drags him down to the valley, and pulled by Mary's motorcycle, just manages to meet his team for the long-distance skiing contest. Guess who won :) Great visuals of people in snow/glaciers. 80 years old, this film still offers some very well-filmed thrills.