Based in the year 1936, North Face retells the story of two German climbers who are driven by the Nazi propanaganda to compete by climbing the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. At that time, the German government publicity had actually drawn attention to German and Austrian mountaineering, and to climbing the North Face in particular, as matters of German national and ethnic pride.
This film is a travelogue back in time, from Berlin to Bavaria to the Swiss Alps by bicycle and train. North Face is by far my favorite mountain climbing movie.
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