Danger. The enemy, ruthless corporations corrupted Government Agencies and criminal cartels. The one i think with a design and target environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. W. Ah, lini leaf and style was an injured dancer from berlin, searching for new perspectives. Arnold frank was a celebrated film director searching for the perfect pictures for his mountain films frontline causal a month ago. Thank was a great romantic whose skill lay in conveying the grandeur and beauty of the mountains to a wide audience historical bites of like millions of viewers in the 1920s, leaf and style was fascinated by fax, thrilling images. That this came out exactly how a skier feels when hes under way leaks this leaf in style decided to become a mountain film actress and contacted frank the director fell for the young dancer and became her teacher. She performed for and with them on screen and off in 1932 they travel to greenland to shoot the feature film as so s iceberg. The 1st german american Film Production is me and i presume both. Thank and lenny reef install hope to make it in hollywood. Hopefully it was to be a film of superlatives, based on a true story, the crash of general umberto nobela and his airship italia, while returning from the north pole in 1928. The rescue operation made headlines worldwide for thank and leaf and star s o s iceberg marked a turning point. She went on to make films for hitler, and shaped the image of the 3rd reich. Meanwhile, thanks. Fortunes plummeted. Ah. Blue. In may 1932. The ship borrow dino was anchored at the port of hamburg on board was film director arnold frank in a few hours he and his team planned to embark on a 6 month long trip to greenland. Also, a board was asked audit a world war one flying ace, who always played himself in fangs films. Every one was ready to go. Just the lead actress was missing, lini leaf and style was holding up the largest film expedition of its day. The swan only felt so tired nima there were about 40 participants in this expedition and omitted to extra ships to smaller ships. So they could get around once they were there. I also took 3 planes for and students, and 3 polar bears from the hamburg zucker, mom had everything with them. Thats all cell cluster by go help. The pressure on thank was enormous. The funding came from hollywood from the founder at universal studios, german and mcgray car lem that hed contacted arnold thank a year before hoping that the director would have a good idea for new film. On go farther in an sites whiskey as Thomas Compton call in a magazine from back then called corolla. My grandfather saw pictures of greenland 50 austin beautiful coin. They were obviously the 1st photos of greenland had ever seen and showed icebergs, eyes huge icebergs. And evidently looking at these iceberg pictures made him realize. So for man, thats just my thing. What ive been doing for 20 years, socket, snow and ice. Its once a shot mother, new and ice. Thank screenplay was inspired by the crash of the in ship italia, in the arctic, in 19 he ate. It, sparked the largest rescue operation of its day. In fact, story, a researcher gets stranded on an iceberg. His wife tries to rescue him by plain titled s o s iceberg. The film would be shot in greenland. Log about the country as an iced him. He thought he could perfect his eyes been wonderfully barrel and in studio execs invited him to come to america to come in april 1932 thank travel to los angeles for contract negotiations. He hope this film would be his big break in hollywood. The chances looked good as the director and his lead actress, lini, leaf install, had been successful pairing and durham, and cinema since the mid 19 twenties and had even attracted attention in the us. It was also clear to universal that facts idea had blockbuster potential. They struck a deal which would give thank a budget of a dizzying 1000000 ice marks. All that was missing was the contract of able to sleep with the car it was signed, an american director popped up from he just come back from greenland where hed also planned to shoot an iceberg film to, to him. It wouldnt, hed set off there on his own ship with 120 maps away, but just no 19 came back alive to go. The others had died hugging. Now every one at universal was against the project. Lemme universals director got up and asked me thank what do you have to say . Did that mr. Lemme le, i said i guarantee that on the 10th day off to my arrival in greenland, ill be standing on an iceberg. Filming, and cabling you actually ugly in cobbler. But frank didnt realize the challenges awaiting him in greenland. The spotless lemley mitigate, lemons, parting words, v expedition were and it can be done. But of course, the underlying message was also do it and so on and do it right. So your matters wish ledler had high expectations, trusting that frank would deliver outstanding footage as good. And you shouldnt be mental and its always about what people can do. The gillonson humans so that they keep pushing the existing boundaries a little know she really both not is a former alpine ski racer and camera man. The footage he shot for james bond films is now legendary. Funks in law, the frank films were an inspiration to anyone working in the field. And for new images they still have different images, other dimensions and contrasts. Thats what the camera man or filmmaker is always after the lima and he him he to his thank would become the 1st person to shoot a feature film in greenland. Lemon been then given the time in which they made it. They have my utmost respect homes, many constable to speak in 1993 adventurer and extreme mountaineer hind hud messner crossed greenland on foot. A 2200 kilometer trek england been driven to magnet should complex are making a film in greenland is much more complex than making one in the himalayas. B in greenland, you have to fly quite long distances and the helicopter cant get you to the mainland to do your shopping. And then get you back to what youre doing. And field is Dennis Miller shooting a film is not just a question of creating images with the camera or capturing sound stuff that will not suspend it. It also requires a complex logistics to bring people materials, equipment, and technicians to the location question. It loads them on site to live and then work with them on doping on me. Then for all of albert, thanks to universal. Thanks, phil mixed. The addition would set off well equipped director was frustrated for other reasons. On the day of the scheduled departure in may, 1932. He learned that laney leaf. Michelle had another appointment. Thank. Couldnt imagine with him leaning, grieving chill out of his office. So often in her life marked he plenty of youth install, actively sought the attention of a powerful man. In this case, it was hitler seeing the feeder, but she always said i must get to know this man sat in good health. She met him and huddle mozilla, where he was running for election by now. They went for a walk on the beach, and hitler allegedly said, when we are in power, you must make our films in one at lazy. Thats what reef install says in her memoirs in school tomorrow. After their meeting by the north sea, hitler flew her to hamburg by plane, giving her a taste of the luxurious lifestyle that might lie ahead. Each doll had been of the install, of course then kept close to hitler side home. She didnt know what was to come out. On the other hand, she shot this movie for the americans with fine con this law with jewish money. It must be said, though she saw no contradiction in that. She kept options open, obstinate hollywood, or he had luckless on the expedition to film as so as iceberg was finally able to start all, be it one day late. But after they cast off, it soon became clear that leaf and stars mind was elsewhere. Instead of studying fang script, she was reading otto, hitlers mind. Come. That often borrow news from hitler. Apparently she also had a photo of hitler with her during the filming of s o. S iceberg. As an oscar, you go and according to her co workers and colleagues carter, she built a little alter for this hitler picture, old. Im with this man. She raved about hitler horned and about her future to that often you lets accomplish farmed, shunning discussions about the screen, play, grief and style flirted with hands. Adel instead, sank, had hired him as a mountain guide for as so as iceberg. Later after they came thanks, camera man, leaf and style admired the daring climber of the regime. The law shes shown to be on the journey. Shed already been after me shallow. Then we were in the gentlemans lounge playing cards. And suddenly lenny came in and looked at me with her wonderful eyes. She thought she had wonderful eyes, shaw, she showed me my article from the hamburger, illustrator. Oh, still no. Did all this it. She said to me as im telling you it can no longer be denied. So i was never so infatuated with a woman as i was with her back then for those who. And lennie herself came to me and said it is over. Often he cons you with your cat size. I want to scratch them out, but i liked you too much. Good to know. She was completely crazy to wash. Ah, yet for her director arnold. Thank. She had nothing but i see disregard. What had happened up until that moment there shared history, read like a fairy tale. It began almost 7 years earlier in the spring of 1925. Back then the berlin plumbers daughter, lena. He finished off with staring into avoid any injury. Had put an end to the dancing career, she pursued against her fathers wishes. So she was looking for new projects. These often bes, on her way to an important doctors appointment up and so shes sitting at a subway station when suddenly a movie poster catches her eye of the its the mountain destiny. And a film by dr. Arnold, find its playing at the cinema across the street. Him, she forgets all else and isnt utterly fascinated as easily as im foy common. Fast. Cbs leaf ashton skips her appointment and goes to the movies instead. The nature and the actors in the film cast a spell on her lam months. Builder. The, these were depictions of men who still went out into nature, which did not smooth City Slickers ali plan. Shed been fascinated by mountain is all her life up from batch dragon fast to new. I think maybe when she saw thanks films, she wasnt just attracted to the mountains, but also to these figures that lead very different lives from the people in the urbanized world as live in fulton as the mentioned in the or money field. But aah law with this vision minutes and i believe that turning to the mountain films was indeed a form of emancipation for revenge. Darcy, phyllis and good thing, she left her Family Circle for good as she left the city for gert. See, she conquered this new cinematic space of nature, the mountains, the back road, and she found refuge with a new father figure in nor, namely, arnold frank with an annoyed heart of equivalent to hurst arnold frank. And at the time, i know frank was germanys most renowned director. After 10000000 people flocked to the cinemas to see his films linearly from style was also fascinated by facts, pictures of rugged mountains. Vancouver and causal man, to thank, was a great romantic horse whose skill laying, conveying the grandeur and beauty of the mountains, along with the danger of the mountains in black and white, to go to a wide audience, frightened publican by itself. And he inspired people to enter this magnificent world. The good built in england, mid frank, with thank the mountain, gained whole new powers of attraction. This was ahem, fug students for the 1st time, audiences saw how clouds moved over the mountains in fangs films. They saw steep cliffs and avalanches and felt the frost of fog. Thank was good at giving folks a feel for the cold that prevails up there to go and the sense of threat. Theres a constant sense of threatening images. He brings this nature which was previously viewed with skepticism and concern from below into peoples living rooms and the cinemas, silva. The baldness in the born storm presumes of vintage in of far thank. Mountains were sacred. As a child, hed suffered from asthma, which triggered choking fits and panic attacks. Only when his father sent him from hester in germany to divulge in the swiss alps, did his health prove. Jesse, thats where he decided he no longer wanting to be up hysterically. The rather from that moment on, hed live a disciplined and athletic life and from then on facts, life revolved around the mountains. He earned a doctorate and geology worked as a ski instructor, climbed mountains and took pictures of them and a lip as well as if we were gonna give you a currently one time a storm cloud rose somewhere behind a force and he took wonderful photos of it from the mouth about the storm cloud didnt move in the photos and you found that to satisfying the fear. So when moving pictures came along and became accessible to him, he suddenly realised, oh, thats my medium. I wonder. Ah, implicit cause injustice. My medium thank wanted to move the camera and capture natural light. So he did something unthinkable for the time. He took the camera off the tripod and out and to nature. This style became known as unchanged camera. Is this good now to skip through. Exactly how a skier feels when hes under way to skip the sydney tons. Thats what you want to convey on to. So its clear that you have to move the camera to take it with you. If you want to get those emotions across, even with you on the limiting mil, new perspectives and Innovative Technology have enabled villa book now to further develop and interpret what arnold frank began. Ah, driven by a desire to shoot moving pictures, thank founded accompany a 1920. He and his team developed the 1st as alar film camera, and the 1st optical zoom lens. He also mounted a handheld camera on skis. Thank had all ready proved to be a clever inventor during world war one. A dispute not an appeal that i needed for the working counter intelligence. He employed some photographic tricks. He probably taught himself by good puffed hunter, namely photographing certain colored stamps and documents using different filters to, for example, equip agents with new passports, aunt stomach condom, and on him for muslim, which again can bit annoying, personal shopping. While in the military, he also saw a slow motion camera for the 1st time. It was used to analyze how grenades penetrate armored walls. Out as a contest as noise, he recognized that this kind of camera for new cinematic possibilities. V as a could show the movements of a skier, or ski jumper and very slow motion, often come in in a fit of madness. He bought one on file from von it was from a Company Called animal life on the film waste in dresden germany. The rest of them, the camera way, 200100 kilos and they hauled it up in the mountains. Come up using it for the 1st time in the wonders of skiing in 1920 along. So thats one says i just wondered if nash was shown, does the estimate . Angus, its for the 1st time the audience could see movements in slow motion. It was a sensation with their pictures. Thank. And his team developed a new genre. The mountain film. Its focus was on nature, photography and daring stunts. The story was secondary given her desire. Thus for today wed say it was a bit of an action film to come by. This was in that sense both things came together with the visual attraction of nature and the entertainment value offered by the action. It was actually perfect. A complete package was packet, but no cinema wanted to screen fax documentary the wonders of skiing. So he and his colleagues rented auditoriums and travel to germany with the film reels in their suitcases. Their Marketing Strategy worked more and more people clamored to see the spectacular pictures. Ah lif inch doll than a dancer with a knee injury was fascinated by fax recordings. Ah, yes, i thought it was a totally different film, a pioneering one. Back then there were no mountain films, no such moving images. The clouds, for example, were alive and they moved. Theyd never been anything like it. Frank was a pioneer. The slow motion shots and above all the lighting the back light and the framing. It was also autistic. So far, far ahead of its time right away. Even without knowing much about film, i realized that this was a very, very special art form i was seeing on screen for the 1st time. And so yes, with an event at least the 22 year old had a new career goal to become an actress. And fax films, ah, these i thought 2 and 3 ought devised. She just traveled to a location where she knew frank would be filming how things it. But she didnt meet him there her. Instead, she met louis tanka and suite, talked him into arranging contact with funk of the cooking hockey but human contact here. Mr. Arnold frank was in his early thirtys back then i found the privacy lenny grievance tall in her early twenties. He brought in jail kirk, she was a very attractive woman and had perfectly mastered the art of Party Crashing as we put it to day long in dallas chung perfect perished, asked to see how you were this ruefully. He certainly had great hopes for a personal relationship that went beyond the professional one media of the effect she had on him was enormous if he was in otherwise he wouldnt have written a screenplay for her within a few days of getting to know her and label physically, a whole script that was truly tailored to her focus of see all took it in one thank most ill high nichols. Thank must also have had great christmas and because otherwise the young beef and star would not have been so crazy about him in. So thats how it was the dismissal. The feature film, the Holy Mountain is facts visual declaration of love to li, finished on. But the script also reveals his jealousy of the with tanka, who had had an affair with her in this dye extra hope. This was a marlin back, a sheet in the manner shotwell portrayed in the Holy Mountain. 2 men desire the same woman who was in. So you can read inch with a personal situation between frank tanker and he from style style. Its clear that these 2 good mountaineers are which tanker and funk also were vying for the same woman dusty on his own before. Shes the moon, with lini leaf and style as his leading lady. A new narrative horizon opened up for fang zanfeld medium, his lambs, which had up until that point been very light on part simply lacked to narrative element. Just showing men climb up a mountain and ski down at again, havent you . Well, you could not villain that so often clean the female element was missing to this money. What let she tell a happy or unhappy story, a rivalry on the mountain and so on. What he had and frank realized that in many reef and style, hed found the woman who could play that role. He does want, he was also willing to be subjected to the extreme conditions that prevailed during a film shoot up on a mountain green. One prepared to go along and do that, and i did feel bitin bessy debit id is dummy to gain want us of to mom or still linearly from style. Knew she needed to acquire many skills to hold her ground with fag. She quickly