In the shadow of the mountain

Movie
Original title	In the shadow of the mountain
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1940
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Alois Johannes Lippl
script	Alois Johannes Lippl Rudo Ritter Josef Friedrich Perkonig
production	Karl Schulz
music	Karl List
camera	Oskar Schnirch Klaus von Rautenfeld
occupation
Attila Hörbiger : Andreas Aichbichler Hansi Knoteck : Margret Murhaupt Winnie Markus : Hedwig Brüggler Viktoria von Ballasko : Veronika Zumtobel Franziska Kinz : Anna Bründl, wife of the shoemaker Elise Aulinger : Johanna Schloißnigg, general merchant Richard Häussler : Alois Zumtobel, picture carver Eduard Köck : Thaddäus Grill, gravedigger Arnulf Schröder : Florian Bründl, shoemaker Willy Rösner : Peter Brüggler, farmer

In the shadow of the mountain is a German film by director Alois Johannes Lippl from 1940 with Attila Hörbiger , Hansi Knoteck and Winnie Markus in the leading roles. The director wrote the script together with Rudo Ritter and Josef Friedrich Perkonig . In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on December 18, 1940.

action

Andreas Aichbichler heads the mountain rescue service at Heiligengeist. During a rescue, one of the rescuers falls fatally. Margret Murhaupt, a relative of the accident victim, is so shocked that she gives her fiancé Andreas the choice of either the mountain rescue service or her. Reluctantly, he gives in and fulfills her wish. Then Andreas is avoided by his mountain rescue comrades because they have no understanding for his actions. Someone even calls him a coward. But this hurts the young man so much that he wants to prove to the residents of his home village what kind of guy he is. He dares to climb the dangerous Devil's Wall, which no one has yet conquered. Margret is so concerned about this that she turns to her fiancé's former mountain companion for help. She soon realizes that she has wronged not only Andreas but also the whole mountain rescue service with her behavior.

criticism

"Human and social problems in a mediocre, pathetic mountain drama."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

source

Program for the film: "Illustrierte Film-Bühne", published by the publishing house of the same name in Munich, No. 753

Web links

• In the shadow of the mountain in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fwm-stiftung.de/movie/433
2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 3174 (1988), p. 1769