TO BE THE FIRST TO CLIMB THE FAMOUS, NOTORIOUS EIGER NORTH FACE—THE DREAM OF MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE IN THE SUMMER OF 1936.
Based on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In July of 1936 – less than a year after the most recent and fatal attempt, two top German mountaineers, Toni Kurz (BENNO FÃœRMANN) and Andi Hinterstoisser (FLORIAN LUKAS), take up the challenge to become the first to scale the infamous rock face, the so-called Murder Wall.

While preparing themselves at the foot of the mountain, Toni and Andi unexpectedly run into Luise (JOHANNA WOKALEK), the early love of Toni. Now a journalist, she has come with her boss Arau (ULRICH TUKUR), a loyal Nazi, to report about the first ascent. International press and assorted well-heeled climbing fans will turn the expedition into a spectator sport and follow their progress on binoculars from the luxury of the Swiss resort of Grindelwald at the foot of the Eiger.
In the dark of predawn, Toni and Andi begin their ascent, closely followed by the rival Austrian team of Willy Angerer (SIMON SCHWARZ) and Edi Rainer (GEORG FRIEDRICH). All goes well at first as both rope teams make good headway. At a key point Toni executes a daring traverse—ever since known as the Hinterstoisser Traverse—but soon the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and the forces of nature begins.

With NORTH FACE, director and scriptwriter Philipp Stölzl—a multi-talented and sought after opera, music video, commercial and feature-film director—has succeeded in redefining pre-WW II German Berg (mountain) Film and transposing it to the 21st century. He and director of photography Kolja Brandt create a vertiginous and suspenseful adventure from this legendary expedition. NORTH FACE keeps viewers as breathless as if they were out there climbing the mountain themselves.

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• Director: Philipp Stölzl

• Actors:
  Toni Kurz

  Benno Fürmann
  Luise Fellner

  Johanna Wokalek
  Andi Hinterstoisser

  Florian Lukas
  Willy Angerer

  Simon Schwarz
  Edi Rainer

  Georg Friedrich
  Henry Arau

  Ulrich Tukur
  Emil Landauer

  Erwin Steinhauer
  Albert von Allmen

  Branko Samarovski
  Elisabeth Landauer

  Petra Morzé
  Hans Schlunegger (as Hanspeter Müller-Drossart)

  Hanspeter Müller

• Writers:
  Christoph Silber

   
  Philipp Stölzl

   
  Rupert Henning

   
  Johannes Naber

   
  Benedikt Roeskau

   

• Source:    IMDb's page for this movie