Duel in the mountains

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Movie
German title Duel in the mountains
Original title Barriera a Settentrione
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1950
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Luis Trenker
script Luis Trenker
production Nazareno Gallo
for Gallo Film, Rome
music Carlo Rustichelli
camera Ernst Elsiga ,
Domenico Scala
cut Hans Zeiler
occupation

Duel in the Mountains is an Italian crime and mountain film directed by Luis Trenker in 1950.

action

In the border area with Italy , two customs officers are shot dead by drug smugglers . Secret policeman Major Mauri decides to catch the perpetrators. Lieutenant Berti, who is supposed to carry out the operation with him, is slightly injured after a climbing accident and is therefore not fully operational. Both decide to incorporate Berti's injury into their plan. You ascend the Dolomites and stay in one of the mountain huts where Berti is discovered by mountain guide Stefan Hassler. Berti pretends to have dragged himself injured to the mountain hut and is taken by Stefan into his house, where his niece Sandra takes care of him. Sandra and Berti get closer, but Sandra doesn't want a smuggler as a boyfriend, especially since she and her unloved fiancé Beppe have a gun pusher at her side.

Mauri and Berti pretend to be merchants from Milan who, in turn, are actually watch smugglers. Stefan, who used to be an active smuggler, actually wanted to withdraw from the business, but his former boss forces him to go on a big smuggling tour. Stefan also asks Mauri to take part, with whom he had already successfully completed a “smuggling tour” days before, but during which Mauri actually met with border police and organized the large-scale access to the smugglers.

The day of the big tour has come. Because of his injuries, Berti cannot take part in the gang's ascent and arrest and coordinates the attack on the smugglers via radio . However, he is surprised and dejected by Beppe. While Beppe goes to the mountain to warn the smugglers, Berti rushes to the police. In the end, there is a large exchange of fire between the smugglers and the police. As a result, Berti is shot; Mauri shoots Stefan in the end; the surviving smugglers are arrested.

production

Duel in the Mountains was one of the few post-war films directed by Luis Trenker. It originated exclusively in the Dolomites . The film premiered on October 5, 1950 in Stuttgart. It was the film that gave Marianne Hold her breakthrough as an actress. In this Italian production, an Italian and a German version were made with the same actors.

criticism

The Lexicon of the International Film called duel in the mountains as "adventurous, American-style material with excellent nature shots and amateur dialogues."

Cinema found: "Unspectacular despite great mountain shots."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 103
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 2. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 771.
  3. ↑ See cinema.de