North Face

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North Face

2010,

2h 6m,

Adventure/

Romance

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84%

57 Reviews

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2,500+ Ratings

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German and Austrian mountain climbers scale the Eiger in 1936.

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Critics Consensus

A tense and gripping spectacular piece of snow-bound historical German film-making.

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Ian Buckwalter

NPR

Jul 4, 2010

7.1/10

The mountaineers climb for reasons that have little to do with nationalism - reasons the film clumsily attempts to articulate in words. It's far more successful conveying those inspirations with stunning images of them scaling daunting heights.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Apr 30, 2010

3/5

It's Kolja Brandt's gloriously edge-of-the-seat/seat-of-the-pants cinematography (much of the film was shot on location) that really packs a natural wallop.

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Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Apr 16, 2010

3.5/4

A straightforward, wickedly suspenseful Man vs. Nature saga of the type that rarely gets made any more.

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David Harris

Spectrum Culture

Aug 5, 2020

3.5/5

The most effective climbing thriller since Touching the Void.

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Aug 5, 2019

3/4

This is gripping stuff, a tautly directed, white knuckle suspense yarn with a keen sense of time and place.

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Steve Erickson

Nashville Scene

Mar 2, 2019

North Face is at once exciting and horrifying.

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Finn W

Apr 17, 2017

Not typically accurate. Over glamourised and cheapened a truly spectacular story. The so so romance and vilification of Rainer and Angrer cheapens the drama and gravity of the situation Kurz and co were in. Better to watch Joe Simpson's The Beckoning Silence from a purer point of view. However asides the cheap romance, it was a very enjoyable watch. IMPORTANT NOTE there was no evidence of Willie Angrer being the villain in real life. I feel the character they made him into is disrespectful to his memory.

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Theodore R

Mar 9, 2017

Watch this masterpiece instead:: "The Beckoning Silence" (2007)

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Philipp Stölzl

Director

Benno Fürmann

Toni Kurz

Johanna Wokalek

Luise Fellner

Florian Lukas

Andreas Hinterstoisser

Simon Schwarz

Willy Angerer

Georg Friedrich

Edi Rainer

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Synopsis

German and Austrian mountain climbers scale the Eiger in 1936.

Director: Philipp Stölzl
Producer: Danny Krausz, Boris Schönfelder, Rudolf Santschi, Benjamin Herrmann
Screenwriter: Christoph Silber, Rupert Henning, Philipp Stölzl, Johannes Naber
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: DOR Film-West Produktionsgesellschaft mbH
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 29, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 15, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $711.0K
Runtime: 2h 6m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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