Nanga Parbat (2010)
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| Original title | Nanga Parbat |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
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| Director | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| script |
Reinhard Klooss , Sven Severin |
| production | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| music | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| camera | Joseph Vilsmaier, Peter von Haller |
| cut |
Sandy Saffeels , Uli Schön , Max Zandanel |
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Nanga Parbat is a film by the German film director Joseph Vilsmaier from 2010. The film focuses on the Sigi Löw commemorative expedition to Nanga Parbat in 1970, in which Reinhold Messner's brother Günther died. The film shows the events from Reinhold Messner's point of view, which is why there is some controversy regarding the correctness of some of his statements. The circumstances under which Günther Messner died have been the subject of several lawsuits, book publications and numerous discussions since 1970.
action
The film is told in flashbacks from Reinhold Messner's point of view . This disturbs a press conference of the expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer by rejecting his portrayal of the expedition as a lie and himself describing his view of things.
The two brothers Reinhold and Günther Messner grow up, together with seven other siblings, as the sons of a teacher and mountaineer. Even as children, they set out to climb various steep faces, including a. the Nanga Parbat. Years later, Reinhold was given the opportunity to join an expedition to the Rupal wall of the Naga Parbat led by the experienced and renowned expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer. When one of the expedition members is canceled at short notice, Reinhold manages to get his brother to join the team. Tensions arise between the individualistic Reinhold, who sees climbing as a form of art, and Herrligkoffer, who defines mountaineering only as a disciplined team performance. On the other hand, the expedition leader has to rely on Reinhold's media-effective charisma to raise sponsorship money.
Mountaineers set up a base camp at the foot of the Rupalwand. From there, they set up high camps in individual expeditions at increasing heights of the steep wall and secure the paths with hooks and ropes. The Messners twice opposed Herrligkoffer's radio orders to descend to base camp or to stay there.
When it was not possible to climb the summit due to the persistently bad weather, the permit for the expedition, which was only granted for a limited period of time, threatened to expire. Reinhold Herrligkoffer therefore suggests climbing the highest high camp in a small group with Günther and Gerhard Baur in order to pave the way to the summit for the rest of the group. So it should be decided at short notice whether the weather allows an ascent from the high camp. The base camp is supposed to signal good weather with blue, bad with red flares. Reinhold makes it clear that he will also undertake an ascent in bad weather, but alone. On the first night, Gerhard shows symptoms of a cold and suggests they should return to base camp. The Messners reject that, however. After the base camp fired red missiles, the group decides that Reinhold will climb the summit the next day - even though he doesn't have enough rope to secure the entire route. Meanwhile, Günther and Gerhard are supposed to insure the Merklrinne on the way so that Reinhold can dismount more quickly on the way back and get back to the high camp before dark.
The next day, however, Günther is dissatisfied with only doing auxiliary tasks for his brother's fame and climbs spontaneously and without ropes after Reinhold. The sick Gerhard now descends to base camp alone. Günther catches up with Reinhold after only four hours. The two argue about Günther's arbitrary decision. They realize that they can no longer return to camp before nightfall without the supportive insurance of the way back and, since they will have to spend the night outside anyway, they decide to continue the ascent.
In fact, they reach the top of Nanga Parbat and remember dreamed that moment as children. Because Günther is weakened from the quick ascent in the morning, they can only manage part of the way back until nightfall, which they only have to survive covered with emergency blankets. The next day, Reinhold discovers the expedition participants Peter Scholz and Felix Kuen, who have followed them. Reinhold succeeds in establishing call contact. But the piece of steep wall that separates both rope teams proves to be insurmountable. Reinhold therefore decides to descend via the Diamir flank on the back , where there are no fixed ropes for securing. The brothers only fight their way through the unknown territory with an ice ax. Günther is now difficult to motivate to keep running, especially after another night outdoors. He is increasingly out of sight as Reinhold is unwaveringly looking for a safe way for both of them. Finally, Günther, unnoticed by Reinhold, is buried in an avalanche. He climbs back, but cannot find his brother.
Felix and Peter have now climbed the summit of Nanga Parbat themselves and have returned to base camp. There they are celebrated for leading the expedition to a successful ascent of the summit. At the same time, the team regrets the alleged death of the Messners, who are not given any chance of survival.
Increasingly exhausted and with severe frostbite, Reinhold continues to descend through areas that are now snow-free. Eventually local shepherds discover him, carry him to their village and provide him with food. They hand him over to a passing Pakistani army officer. Herrligkoffer has given up on the Messners: whoever evades his orders evades his responsibility. He has the base camp cleared. On the drive to the airport, the entourage meets the Pakistani officer who hands over Reinhold to the climbers.
At the funeral ceremony in the Messners' home village, the pastor asks the question of responsibility and guilt, but also gives the family consolation. Karl Herrligkoffer and Felix Kuen are not present.
background
The drama about the ascent of Nanga Parbat and the death of Günther Messner was filmed based on the memories of Reinhold Messner and without the participation of the other expedition participants at the time. Reinhold Messner acted as advisor to the director during the shooting. The feature film was shown in cinemas from mid-January 2010 and is not a completely authentic documentation of the events of that time. Several expedition members from 1970 and the son of the then expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer criticize the portrayal of Herrligkoffer in the film massively; he appears there as an autocratic, unsympathetic tyrant on the one hand and hesitant on the other, which according to several contemporary witnesses he was not. This is contradicted by the statement made by Georg Kirner , who also knew Karl Maria Herrligkoffer from an expedition and feels that his portrayal in the film is “too beautiful”. Former expedition members also criticized the depiction of various scenes in the film that deliberately did not follow historical facts, such as the scene when Reinhold Messner and Felix Kuen had phone contact in the Merklrinne, or the summit scene with Felix Kuen and Peter Scholz. In contrast to what is shown in the film, Karl Herrligkoffer initiated a search in the Diamir Valley. After he had ordered the evacuation of the camp, Hans Saler and Gert Mendl looked for the Messners in the Merkl channel on the Rupal wall.
criticism
The film-dienst assessed: “The cause of the disaster, which is still controversial today, is rolled out from two perspectives, that of Reinhold Messner and that of the expedition leader who remained in base camp. From this a moderately exciting, broadly rolled out guilt complex drama develops, which also lacks the staging sense for the imposing landscape of the high mountains. "
In the Tagesspiegel, Kai Müller criticized: “Biedermann and the mountaineers: 'Nanga Parbat' is a film about Reinhold and Günther Messner - but it did not turn out to be the powerful mountain film that it could have been.” “But maybe that was exactly what it was about when Messner wrote to Vilsmaier in 2004 with a letter to suggest a collaboration. ”speculates the critic, because“ shortly before, the accusations of former expedition members had stirred up the dust of this largely forgotten story and put Messner on the defensive. He had sacrificed his brother to his own ambition, was the reproach of the former 'mountain comrades' Max von Kienlin and Hans Saler. ”Messner made the greatest reproaches himself that“ the brother who wanted to stay by his side - but not strong enough [for the Nanga Parbat]. "
Web links
- Nanga Parbat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie trailer on YouTube (2:22 min.)
- Video: Joseph Vilsmaier about the film on YouTube (5:42 min.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Nanga Parbat . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 809 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Nanga Parbat . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Nanga Parbat - A film by Joseph Vilsmaier ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on herrligkoffer-stiftung.de, accessed on May 21, 2013. (Homepage of the German Institute for Foreign Research, Herrligkoffer Foundation)
- ↑ B5 for mountaineers from January 16, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Die WELT from January 15, 2010: Herrligkoffer-Sohn attacks Messner-Film sharply on welt.de; The focus of January 16, 2010: absurd and small-scale dispute about Messner film on focus.de; Hamburger Abendblatt from January 16, 2010: “I don't recognize my father again” on Abendblatt.de; Interview with Gerhard Baur in Spiegel from January 17, 2010: Mountaineering drama “Nanga Parbat”: “That is not the truth” on spiegel.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Film Critics - Nanga Parbat found on lichtspielkunst-segeberg.de.
- ↑ Kai Müller: Don't sleep, brother at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on April 3, 2018.
