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The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Sokal-Film, 1930). Swedish movie poster.

Famed director G. W. Pabst created a spectacular adventure film featuring amazing feats of mountaineering with this silent German classic. Leni Riefenstahl, later to become a famous director herself with Olympiad and Triumph of the Will during the Nazi era, stars alongside Gustav Diessl and Ernst Petersen. In her memoir, Leni Riefenstahl recounts, "We worked on this film for weeks at a temperature below minus thirty degrees centigrade and suffered serious frostbite."