1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Reception

5. References

6. External links

• Arnold Fanck
• Hans Schneeberger

• Leni Riefenstahl
• Luis Trenker
• Frida Richard

• Edmund Meisel
• Edmund Reisch

• Arnold Fanck
• Hans Schneeberger
• Sepp Allgeier
• Helmar Lerski

The Holy Mountain ({{lang-de|Der heilige Berg}}) is a 1926 German mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Frida Richard. It was the future filmmaker Riefenstahl's first screen appearance as an actress. Written by Arnold Fanck and Hans Schneeberger, the film is about a dancer who meets and falls in love with an engineer at his cottage in the mountains. After she gives her scarf to one of his friends, the infatuated friend mistakenly believes that she loves him. When the engineer sees her innocently comforting his friend, he mistakenly believes she is betraying him.

Plot

Cast

• Leni Riefenstahl as Diotima
• Luis Trenker as Karl
• Frida Richard as Mother
• Ernst Petersen as Vigo
• Friedrich Schneider as Colli
• Hannes Schneider as Mountain Guide

Production

The film began production in January 1925, but then was delayed due to weather and hospitalization of three actors.^[1]{{rp|45–46}} The film cost 1.5 million reichsmarks to produce (equivalent to {{Inflation|DE|1.5|1926}} million {{Inflation-year|DE}} euros), and was released during the 1926 Christmas season.^[2]

Reception

Popular in Berlin, where sold out performances extended its premiere run for five weeks, it was also screened in Britain, France and US: the first international success of its director.^[1]{{rp|46, 48}} Some critics were not impressed with the film, one of the most expensive efforts released by the German studio UFA in a year which was otherwise marked by a policy of retrenchment and the departure of respected studio head Erich Pommer. The film was compared unfavourably with the much less costly Madame Wants No Children directed by Alexander Korda.^[2]

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Hinton, David B. (2000) [https://books.google.com/books?id=idAx5wrfUIMC&pg=PA4 The Films of Leni Riefenstahl] Scarecrow Press {{ISBN|9781461635062}} pg 4-6
• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.
• Riefenstahl, Leni (1995) [https://books.google.com/books?id=c_4YmuHM9hYC&pg=PA45 A Memoir] NY Picador-USA {{ISBN|0-312-11926-7}} pg 45-59.
• Fanck, Arnold (1973) Er führte Regie mit Gletschern, Stürmen und Lawinen. Ein Filmpionier erzählt München: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung {{ISBN|3-485-01756-6}}

External links

• {{IMDb title|0016953|Der heilige Berg}}
• {{Amg movie|287611|The Holy Mountain}}
• The Holy Mountain at Silent Era

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