Film · 1935 · 1h 32m

Demon of the Himalayas

Name: Demon of the Himalayas
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Drama
Released: 1935-03-16
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff, Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth, Jarmila Vacková, Hans Winzeler

Der Dämon des Himalaya

Adventure Horror Drama

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Synopsis

German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).