Title of film : The White Hell of Pitz Palu

Director Name : Arnold Fanck ,Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast & crew :

Producer : Paul Kohner,Harry R. Sokal

Editor : Arnold Fanck

Cast :

1. 1. Gustav Diessl
2. 2. Leni Riefenstahl
3. 3. Ernst Petersen

Synopsis : The film is about a man who loses his wife in an avalanche while climbing the Piz Palu mountain, and spends the next few years searching the mountain alone for her body. Four years later he meets a young couple who agree to accompany him on his next climb.

Director Bio : Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain, The White Hell of Pitz Palu, Storm over Mont Blanc, Der weisse Rausch, and S.O.S. Eisberg.

Filmography :

1. 1. The Daughter of the Samurai ( 1937 )
2. 2. The Great Leap ( 1927 )
3. 3. Struggle for the Matterhorn ( 1928 )