Teaser (Intro) ZUM DRITTEN POL (The Third Pole)

Norman Dyhrenfurth, born ninty years ago in Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), tells for the first time the fascinating history of his parents in the race to „The Third Pole, the highest mountains on earth. Two expeditions during the 1930s which stand up to their Nazi rivals. In doing so, Günter and Hettie Dyhrenfurth also take the first moving pictures in high altitude during their Himalaya expeditions and receive the Olympic Gold Medal for Alpinism at the Games of Berlin in 1936, much to the chagrin of the Nazis. Norman is especially well placed to present this family saga which spans a time frame of 70 years of mountaineering und film history. He himself put the first Americans on the top of Mount Everest in 1963 and led the first traverse of any 8000-metres mountain. He was participant or the leader of seven major Himalaya expeditions, many of which achieved „Firsts and he filmed every bit of it.

The film features mountaineering legends Sir Chris Bonington and Reinhold Messner. In their engaging interviews they put the Dyhrenfurth expeditions into contemporary context and convey an intense compassion for the heroic achievements and tragic failures of this family.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Everest
• Dyhrenfurth
• Messner
• Bonington
• Himalaya
• Expedition
• Zum Dritten Pol
• The Third Pole
• Olympics
• 1936
• Alpnismus
• Alpinism
• Bergsteigen
• Mountaineering
• Alpen
• Alps
• Himalaja
• Dokumentation
• Documentary
• Film
• BR
• Arte
• Bayerischer
• Rundfunk
• Explorermedia
• FFF
• Filmfernsehfonds
• Bayern

[farsightalliance]

Superb! Thankyou! Norman is one of my all-time heroes! Rob.

[explorermediafilm]

@farsightalliance Thank you! The film will start in German cinemas in March 2010, DVD will follow.

[ElAndalero]

amazing und sie sind jetzt dann bei uns!!!