Demon of the Himalayas

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).

Genre:

Adventure, Horror, Drama

Duration:

92 min

Cast:

Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff, Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Quality:

HD

Director:

Andrew Marton

Release:

1935

Country:

Switzerland, Germany

Rating:

8.0