S.O.S. Eisberg (1933)

Directed by

Tay Garnett, Arnold Fanck

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An expedition team tries to survive on a Greenland ice sheet after their plane crashes. The story follows their struggle against the brutal environment.

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What happens

S.O.S. Eisberg (aka S.O.S. Iceberg and Iceland) is a 1933 German-US pre-Code drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Rocque, and Ernst Udet. The film was written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf. S.O.S. Eisberg follows the account of the real-life Alfred Lothar Wegener polar expedition of 1929–30. Among the stars in S.O.S. Eisberg were Leni Riefenstahl, who had just made her directorial debut in The Blue Light (1932). Riefenstahl, in her last film as an actress, co-starred with Gustav Diessl and Ernst Udet in the German version S.O.S. Eisberg, and with Gibson Gowland and Rod La Rocque in the English version, S.O.S. Iceberg. Ernst Udet, a former German ace in the First World War, in a cameo performance, flew in both versions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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