Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima

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Movie
German title Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima
Original title Roraima: Climbing the Lost World
Country of production Austria
original language German , English , Spanish
Publishing year 2012
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Christian Lonk ,
Philipp Manderla ,
Malte Roeper
script Christian Lonk,
Philipp Manderla,
Malte Roeper
production Philipp Manderla
music Antoni Łazarkiewicz
camera Kolja Brandt ,
Franz Hinterbrandner ,
Marc Rogoll
cut Christian Lonk
occupation

Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima is an Austrian documentary film from 2012 . It started in German cinemas on April 25, 2013, in Austrian cinemas on April 26, 2013 and in Swiss cinemas on August 15, 2013.

The film is essentially about the attempt of the three German extreme mountaineers Kurt Albert , Stefan Glowacz and Holger Heuber to climb a route through the vertical wall of the Roraima-Tepuis in South America that they had not yet walked. After the first attempt, which was broken off halfway up due to the weather, and Albert's sudden death in Bavaria, Glowacz and Heuber finally manage to climb the summit plateau together.

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The steep rock face of the Roraima-Tepuis

The first part of the film tells of the attempt of the three climbers Kurt Albert , Stefan Glowacz and Holger Heuber to perform the first ascent of the route "Behind the Rainbow" on Mount Roraima , which runs almost vertically over hundreds of meters and contains several overhangs. To get to the foot of the mountain, they first go through the jungle for several days , starting from the town of Kako in Guyana and accompanied by several local porters. When ladders have to be climbed and steep climbs to be mastered on this route, the porters give up and turn back. As a result, the three of them have to carry their equipment to the foot of the mountain face themselves. They reach the base camp there, at 2270 meters above sea level, three days after the porters have turned back. The mountain face turns out to be more difficult to climb than expected due to the growth of moss and lichen and the wetness. They manage to climb about halfway up the wall. They stop attempting to climb, among other things because they have not progressed fast enough and therefore their food supplies would no longer last long enough. Also, because Glowacz suffered a bruised heel, they can be picked up by helicopter instead of going back through the jungle.

A few months later Albert died in Bavaria as a result of a via ferrata accident. The middle part of the film is about Glowacz and Heuber's internal processing of Albert's death. The continuation of the first ascent of the Roraima route, which was planned before Albert's death, is delayed as a result. About two weeks after Albert was buried, Glowacz and Heuber traveled back to Table Mountain to complete the ascent. The rest of the film is about this ascent.

This time Glowacz and Heuber let themselves be dropped off on the Roraima plateau in a helicopter, and from there they rappelled down to the point where they had come with Albert on the first attempt. From there they continue the ascent. With this you have to accept a number of setbacks, mainly because of the numerous overhangs, but also because of the moss-covered wall. After more than two weeks on the wall and with food supplies that last for less than three days, they finally reach the summit plateau.

Flashbacks distributed throughout the film show archive material with the beginnings of the climbing careers of the three mountaineers, which also includes photos and newspaper clippings. The flashbacks also include an appearance by Glowacz on a sports talk show, in which he talks about the failed first attempt and Albert's death and in which Jens Lehmann also has a say. The flashbacks also contain excerpts from interviews with Günther Jauch and Donald Sutherland as well as scenes in which the climbers are with their families in their homeland.

Staging

Stefan Glowacz

Acoustically, the audience is informed exclusively by original sounds , also from the off . The main actors often speak to an interviewer who is not shown. The recordings of the climbers in the wall can be seen alternately from an airplane and from a camera guided in the wall.

In the film, the brand logos of equipment can be seen repeatedly.

Several pieces of music can be heard in the film. According to the credits, these are the following:

A fade-in at the beginning of the credits ("for Kurt") indicates that the film is dedicated to Kurt Albert.

Reviews

“The documentary about three sporty border crossers impresses not only with spectacular mountain images, but also with a clever montage that structures the film through anticipation and archive images in such a way that the motivation and mental state of the protagonists becomes clear and the documentation becomes an exciting psychogram. "

- Lexicon of international film

“As exciting as a mountaineering thriller, the climbers tell of their fascinating adventure. The camera always in their luggage [,] they managed to take breathtaking pictures of a wild force of nature. Some moments seem clearly overstaged, but that is precisely why they seem all the more gripping. [...] The quality of the pictures is unfortunately not consistently high. Still a worthwhile cinema adventure! "

- prisma.de

Video publishing

The film was released on October 4, 2013 on the Ascot Elite label on both DVD and Blu-ray.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2013 (PDF; test number: 136 982 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for hunters of the moment - An adventure on Mount Roraima . Youth Media Commission .
  3. Jump up ↑ Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Hunter of the moment. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 2, 2017 .