Night on Mont Blanc

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Movie
Original title Night on Mont Blanc
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1951
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Reinl
script Harald Reinl
production Franz Hoffmann
music Giuseppe Becce
camera Walter Riml
cut Harald Reinl
occupation

Nacht am Mont Blanc (alternative titles: Weisse Hölle Montblanc and Purgatory of Love ) is an Austrian fictional film by Harald Reinl from 1951. The main roles are played by Dietmar Schönherr and the Austrian ski racer Dagmar Rom, who was very popular at the time .

action

The border policeman Vigo pursues a gang of drug smugglers on the Mont Blanc massif on the French-Italian border. His fiancée Monika is waiting for him in the mountain hotel. Vigo only returns after two days, but has to leave again after a few hours. He hardly finds time for Monika. The young woman is therefore persuaded by the page Angelo to go on a ski trip, during which she meets her childhood friend Hans again. The two spend the rest of the day on the mountain and the evening together in an inn. Hans lives in the same hotel as Monika and is planning a mountain tour for the next day. Late in the evening he can persuade Monika to let him into his room to treat a slight injury to the ankle that Monika had suffered while skiing. When he tries to kiss her, she rejects him. Only now does he find out that she is engaged. Hans then leaves the hotel that night and sets off on his planned mountain tour.

In the afternoon an ominous guest had stayed at the hotel. First he asked about Vigo, but because he was not there, he had a letter deposited for him. The next day, Vigo and the porter find the stranger murdered in his room. The traces initially point to Hans as a suspect. So Vigo takes up the chase, although he soon doubts Hans' guilt, as the traces are too obvious. The police, who have meanwhile arrived at the hotel, ensure that none of the guests and staff are allowed to leave the hotel. Therefore Monika has to jump out of the window to free herself from the hotel, because she hurries after her fiancé Vigo to convince him of Hans' innocence. When Vigo caught up with Hans, he tried to stop him with warning shots. At the same time Monika also reaches the two of them, but loses her balance and falls over a slope into a crevasse. Vigo and Hans rush to the scene of the accident together. Hans has the necessary mountain equipment with him and lets himself down into the crevice on a rope. He finds Monika unconscious with a head wound. With Vigo's help, he can save her from the crevice. However, due to a change in the weather, they can no longer go down into the valley on the same day and have to spend the icy night on the mountain. Monika will soon regain consciousness and be protected from the cold by a thick sleeping bag. However, Vigo and Hans have to prevent each other from falling asleep in order not to freeze to death.

When Vigo asked Hans a few questions about the previous night, he only gave evasive answers. Finally Vigo realizes that Hans and Monika spent the night together in a room. Vigo then leaves the two, Hans follows him a little later. There is a brief argument in which Hans slips over an edge and can only just hold on. At the last moment, Vigo takes his hand and saves him from the impending crash. The next day a search team set out to find the missing persons. The search is successful and everyone is returning to the valley. One of the hotel guests can ultimately be found guilty of the perpetrator. The letter on file for Vigo shows that the murdered man had information about the smugglers.

Production, publication and background

The film was produced by Hope-Film (Vienna) and Hope Film (Munich) for Gloria-Filmverleih. The film was shot from March to October 1951 in the Atelier Thiersee and the Elte-Film-Atelier in Berlin as well as in the Tyrolean mountains, at the Taschachhaus , in Hintertux , in the Zillertal , in Courmayeur and on the Mont Blanc .

In the GDR the film was shown under the title Schmuggler am Montblanc , in Austria under the title Weisse Hölle Montblanc . His international title is Night to Mont-Blanc . In the Federal Republic of Germany, Nacht am Mont Blanc was shown in cinemas on November 16, 1951 (premiered in Munich), in the GDR on October 23, 1953. The film was also shown in Japan.

The role of Monika was played by the then very popular ski racer Dagmar Rom . She won two gold medals at the 1950 World Cup . A film with her was supposed to be made as early as 1947, but all previous projects failed because of the outdoor shots that were too expensive for the producers.

criticism

For the lexicon of international film , the plot was irrelevant, but the nature shots were found to be impressive: "Mountain film with a genre-typical love story, an insignificant criminal plot and an impressive natural backdrop."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Night at Mont Blanc Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 1078
  2. ↑ Purgatory of Love Film photo with Dietmar Schönherr and Dagmar Rom
  3. ↑ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films - Harald Reinl
  4. ↑ Smuggler at the Montblanc Progress film illustrated (cover picture: Dagmar Rom)
  5. ↑ Weisse Hölle Montblanc Illustrated Film-Bühne No. 1286 (cover picture from left to right: Dietmar Schönherr, Dagmar Rom, Baldur von Hohenbalken)
  6. ↑ The night on Mont Blanc at film.at
  7. ↑ Night on Mont Blanc. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 16, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used