Arnold Fanck
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Film director
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- Frankenthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
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Arnold Fanck
Born 6 March 1889
Frankenthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died 28 September 1974 (aged 85)
Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
Alma mater University of Zürich
Occupation Film director
Known for Mountain films
Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) 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). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml.
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Arnold Fanck with his secretary and lover Elisabeth Kind 1933 in Greenland on set of the movie S.O.S. Eisberg. In 1934 both married in Berlin.
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Arnold Fanck
Born 6 March 1889
Frankenthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died 28 September 1974 (aged 85)
Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
Alma mater University of Zürich
Occupation Film director
Known for Mountain films
Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) 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). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml.
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Arnold Fanck with his secretary and lover Elisabeth Kind 1933 in Greenland on set of the movie S.O.S. Eisberg. In 1934 both married in Berlin.
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