Messner (film)

Movie
Original title	Messner
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2012
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Andreas Nickel
script	Andreas Nickel
production	Andreas Nickel
music	Wolfgang Gleixner Peter Horn Andrej Melita
camera	Denis Ducroz
cut	Lodur Tettenborn Hans Horn
occupation
Interviews: Reinhold Messner Helmut Messner Hubert Messner Hans-Jörg Messner Ursula Grether-Endres Horst Fankhauser Wolfgang Nairz Peter Habeler Hans Kammerlander Claude Montessuit Maurice Cretton Sepp Mayerl Heindl Messner Actor: Florian Riegler : Reinhold Messner Martin Riegler: Günther Messner Hubert Niederwolfsgruber: Father Messner Brunhilde Schatzer: Mother Messner Philipp Mantinger: Reinhold Messner as a child Patrik Mantinger: Günther Messner as a child Gabriel Messner: Reinhold Messner as a teenager Aaron Messner: Günther Messner as a teenager

Messner is a German film biography from 2012 by director Andreas Nickel about the extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner .

content

Using documentary recordings and photos, interviews with Messner, his family members, companions and critics, the film depicts the most important stages in the life and work of the mountaineer and allows his family history and childhood in South Tyrol to be recreated (in scenes re-enacted by actors) . The biography is divided into nine chapters, which are titled trust, rebellion, morality, responsibility, reproach, self-examination, Mount Everest, knowledge and farewell.

Born in 1944, Messner grew up in Villnöß in a family with nine children on his parents' chicken farm. Messner's brother Günther was also a passionate mountaineer. He was killed in the Nanga Parbat expedition in 1970, which was a serious turning point in Reinhold Messner's life. Between 1970 and 1986 Messner made 25 attempted and 18 successful eight-thousander climbs. In the film, Messner describes anarchy (“no power for anyone”) as the perfect form of democracy.

background

• Reinhold Messner's own children Gabriel and Aaron play himself and his brother Günther as young people in the film.
• As bonus material, the DVD contains the interview with Reinhold Messner (only used in short excerpts in the film) in the uncut version of around 45 minutes.
• The film, produced by ExplorerMedia in coproduction with Wilfried Ackermann Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARTE , had its theatrical release in Germany on September 27, 2012. It was released on April 17, 2013 on DVD and Blu-Ray. The first broadcast on German television took place on March 23, 2014 on ARTE.

Reviews

“Documentary about the South Tyrolean extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who was the first person to climb all eight-thousand-meter mountains. Without freezing in awe of the protagonist's achievements, he uses a mixture of archive material, interview scenes and re-enacted recordings to create the impressive psychogram of a man who always explored his personal limits and had to accept severe losses and setbacks. "

- Lexicon of international film

“With his docudrama, director Andreas Nickel [..] creates a haunting portrait of the polarizing person Reinhold Messner, also from the perspective of those closest to him, and explores the mystery of what drives the extreme mountaineer. He always lets exciting climbing scenes flow in. "

- kino.de

“Curiosity, a thirst for freedom and unshakable belief in yourself - that is what sets Messner apart, and in an unusually strong way. An exciting person, an exciting film - as exciting as a thriller. "

- Andrea Beu - n-tv

Awards

• German film and media rating: rating "particularly valuable"
• Grand Prix of the 30th Festival de Cinema de Muntanya de Torelló
• Audience Award Trento Film Festival
• Grand Prix Graz 2012 International Mountain and Adventure Film Festival Graz

Web links

• Messner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Messner in the Lexicon of International Films
• Messner at filmportal.de
• Cinema release of "Messner": mountaineer Reinhold Messner looks back

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film review of Messner on kino.de
2. ↑ As exciting as a thriller: Messner believes in himself, not in God on n-tv from September 26, 2012
3. ↑ FBW press release of the German Film and Media Assessment
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ http://www.mountainfilm.com/de/2012/gewinner/