Demon of the Himalayas

Demon of the Himalayas
Directed by Andrew Marton
Produced by Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Written by Eberhard Frowein
Fritz Rau
Mila Rau
Starring Gustav Diessl
Erika Dannhoff
Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Jarmila Marton
Music by Arthur Honegger
Cinematography Richard Angst
Production
company
Tramontana
Distributed by Tobis Film
Release date
 16 March 1935
Country Germany
Switzerland
Language German

Demon of the Himalayas (German: Der Dämon des Himalaya) is a 1935 German-Swiss co-production adventure film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff and Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth. It is part of the Mountain film genre which was popular during the era.

Location shooting was done during the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition and a number of the Expedition's participants appeared in the film. The film premiered in Zurich in March 1935.[1] It received a mixed reception from critics.[2] It was remade in Hollywood by Marton in 1952 as Storm Over Tibet[3].

Cast

  • Gustav Diessl as Doctor Norman - Ethnologist
  • Erika Dannhoff as Anne
  • Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth as Professor Wille
  • Jarmila Marton as Ellen
  • Hans Winzeler as Doctor Winkler
  • Hans Ertl as Hans
  • Albert Höcht as Bertl
  • André Roch as André
  • James Belaieff as Jimmy
  • Piero Ghiglione as Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist
  • Dalib as Tibetanischer Träger
  • Achmad as Tibetanischer Träger

References

  1. ↑ Holt p.299-300
  2. ↑ Holt p.303
  3. ↑ p. 229 Pitts, Michael R. Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982 McFarland, 12 Oct. 2010

Bibliography

  • Holt, Lee Wallace. Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900-1945. ProQuest, 2008.
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