Call Over the Air (1951)

Original title

Ruf aus dem Äther

Directed by

Georg C. Klaren

Genre

drama film

Country

Austria

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man works at a mountain weather station in the Alps. He gets involved with a woman and struggles with isolation and his emotions.

melancholicromantictenseslow-burnvisually lushnostalgicbittersweetatmospheric

What happens

Call Over the Air (German: Ruf aus dem Äther) is a 1951 Austrian drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Oskar Werner, Lucia Scharf and Fritz Imhoff. It was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with location shooting at the Dachstein in the Alps. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. Although filming took place in 1948, it was not released for a further three years in either Austria or West Germany. The film is regarded as lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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