The Holy Mountain | |
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Directed by | Arnold Fanck |
Written by | Arnold Fanck Hans Schneeberger |
Produced by | Harry R. Sokal |
Starring | Leni Riefenstahl Luis Trenker Frida Richard |
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Edited by | Arnold Fanck |
Music by | Edmund Meisel Edmund Reisch |
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Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent film German intertitles |
Budget | 1.5 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (equivalent to €6 million in 2021) |
The Holy Mountain (German: Der heilige Berg) is a 1926 German mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Frida Richard. It was the future filmmaker Riefenstahl's first screen appearance as an actress. Written by Arnold Fanck and Hans Schneeberger, the film is about a dancer who meets and falls in love with an engineer at his cottage in the mountains. After she gives her scarf to one of his friends, the infatuated friend mistakenly believes that she loves him. When the engineer sees her innocently comforting his friend, he mistakenly believes she is betraying him.