The Mountain Calls (1938)
- Original title
- Der Berg ruft
- Directed by
- Luis Trenker
- Genre
- drama film, adventure film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Two climbers compete to be the first to reach the top of the Matterhorn in 1865. The film shows their separate attempts and the rivalry between them.
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What happens
The Mountain Calls (German: Der Berg ruft) is a film directed by Luis Trenker which recreates the struggle between Edward Whymper and Jean-Antoine Carrel for the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. This German film is one of two 1938 Trenker remakes of Struggle for the Matterhorn in which Trenker acted in 1928, the other being the British The Challenge. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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- Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
- Von der Liebe besiegt (1956)
- North Face (2008)
- Climbing the Matterhorn (1946)
- Nordlicht (1938)
- Mit versiegelter Order (1938)
- The Peak Scaler (1933)
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