SOS - glacier pilot
| Movie | |
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| Original title | SOS - glacier pilot |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language |
German Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Victor Vicas |
| script | Werner Wollenberger |
| production | Oscar Düby ( Unitas film ) |
| music | Hans Moeckel |
| camera | Emil Berna |
| cut | Hans Heinrich Egger |
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SOS - Gletscherpilot is a Swiss film directed by Victor Vicas from 1959 .
action
Glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flies over a four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and observes a glacier break, which is always a bad omen in mountaineering circles . On the following day, despite this incident, three rope teams climb through this glacier up to Dent Blanche . The doctor Gruber, initially accompanied by his wife, a young engineer named Gisler with girlfriend Monica, two young boys named Charly and Roby, the mountain guide Perren and the sporty Englishman Puckle get caught in a storm. Roby comes off the "course" and falls into a crevasse. Mountain guide Perren tries to save him together with Puckle. The remaining four head down the valley alone, but in view of the weather conditions Gruber slips and pulls the other participants down with him. As they land on a ledge, they gradually become aware of the seriousness of their situation and realize that they will not make the way back on their own. Charly, to whom nothing has happened in contrast to the others, goes in search of his missing friend. He manages to reach the site of the crash and is horrified to discover that mountain guides Perren and Puckel found their deaths during their rescue attempt. Roby, however, is still sitting in the crevasse and is in danger of freezing to death.
Gruber's wife, who was left behind in a hut, alerts the mountain rescue team. They are on their way and can save Charly and Roby from the wall. Even the glacier pilot Geiger, who was initially prevented from working by the storm, can finally take off and reach the group around Gruber with a breakneck landing. But he can only take two people on board and has to leave Gruber behind. In the meantime, he got caught in an avalanche that tears him to his death. So only Monica, Giesler, Charly and Roby survived their trip.
background
For many years, the Valais glacier pilot Hermann Geiger flew daring missions in his single-engine Piper to bring mountaineers in trouble to safety. In this semi-documentary film SOS - Glacier Pilot , Geiger plays himself. The recordings were made in the Valais mountains.
The SOS - Gletscherpilot template originally came from Max Frisch , but was rewritten beyond recognition with Düby's assistance.
There was no trick technology, almost all scenes were shot at the original locations.
Despite the star cast, the film was a financial failure as the cost of shooting outdoors in the high mountains skyrocketed. This meant the end of the Unitas-Film production company in 1959 .
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote that the production was "a [d] ramaturgically and staged awkward Swiss film" . Its only value lies in the "semi-documentary representation of mountain distress and rescue operations" .
The Swiss film website molodezhnaja writes: "Formula-like mountain cinema that has a few trump cards up its sleeve with its optics, but otherwise never really rises."
Web links
- SOS - Gletscherpilot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Page to the film at molodezhnaja
- Page to the film at 3sat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SOS - Gletscherpilot at moviepilot.de, accessed on November 18, 2016.
- ↑ SOS - Glacier Pilot in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ movie review at molodezhnaja.ch, accessed on 18 November 2016th