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Arnold Fanck
Deceased

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Life & Death

Died aged 85
GenderMaleNationalityGerman EmpireBorn06/03/1889Born inFrankenthal, GermanyDied28/09/1974Died inFreiburg im BreisgauWikidataQ71253Buried atHauptfriedhof FreiburgTMDb#102668

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 (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933).

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Filmography5 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2018Eiskalte Leidenschaft - Leni Riefenstahl und Arnold Fanck zwischen Hitler und HollywoodMovieSelf (archive footage)129
2008Faszination Bergfilm - Himmelhoch und AbgrundtiefMovieSelf (archive footage)119
1951German Film AwardSeriesSelf62
1920Das Wunder des SchneeschuhsMovie31
19134628 Meter hoch auf SkiernMovieSelf24