Conquering Everest
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Conquering Everest |
| Original title | The Conquest of the Everest |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Lowe |
| production |
Leon Clore , John Taylor Grahame Tharp |
| music | Arthur Benjamin |
| camera | George Lowe, Thomas Stobart, JBL Noel (historical photos 1922 and 1924) |
| cut | Adrian de Potier |
| occupation | |
other climbers: Colonel John Hunt, Charles Evans, George Lowe, Alfred Gregory, Tom Bourdillon, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Wilfred Noyce, Thomas Stobart, Michael Ward, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie | |
Conquering Everest is a British documentary film from 1953 made in the Himalaya Mountains. It was directed by mountaineer and expedition member George Lowe .
action
The documentary records the first ascent of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth at 8,848 meters, by Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. The New Zealander and the Nepalese of Tibetan origin were members of a team of 14, the British Colonel John Hunt put together.
Production notes
The first secure presentation of the film took place on December 8, 1953 in Sweden. In Germany this documentation ran on February 4, 1954. On New Year's Day 1972, the film was shown for the first time on German television.
Louis MacNeice wrote the commentary that Meredith Edwards made in the original English. Muir Mathieson conducted the music.
Awards
In addition to being nominated for an Oscar for best full-length documentary, Conquering Everest received the BAFTA Award for best documentary film in their native Great Britain and was also the winner of the NBR Awards .
reception
Der Spiegel judged after the German premiere: “The documentary film about the English summit triumph in the year of the coronation discharges its pathetic music and is in the text of the objectivity of the 'Times'. The Technicolor images, which portray the conquering of the summit - without reducing the mountaineering performance - as a technical-scientific enterprise, make the German Nanga Parbat film, which is storming the summit, appear like the Rüdersdorf limestone mountains opposite the Himalayas. "
"A factual and powerful report on the British expedition's conquest of Mount Everest in 1953."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critique in the Spiegel, issue 12/1954
- ↑ Conquering Everest. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 11, 2019 .
Web links
- The conquest of Everest in the Internet Movie Database (English)