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4 unusual facts about Arnold Fanck


Arnold Fanck

With The Daughter of the Samurai and other "culture films", Fanck decided to cooperate with the Nazi regime.

After the screening of his film Der ewige Traum at the mountain film festival in Trento in 1957, Fanck was once again recognized for his artistic achievements.

Edmund Meisel

Meisel wrote full scores for Arnold Fanck's The Holy Mountain in 1926 and in 1927, was the composer on Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, writing a score to be played by an orchestra of 75 musicians.

Piz Palü

The mountain has gained some prominence from the film The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), co-directed by mountain-film pioneer Arnold Fanck and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring a young Leni Riefenstahl.


S.O.S. Eisberg

S.O.S. Eisberg (S.O.S. Iceberg) is a 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gibson Gowland, Sepp Rist, and Ernst Udet.


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