The Great Leap (film)

The Great Leap
German theatrical release poster
Directed byArnold Fanck
Written byArnold Fanck
Produced byArnold Fanck
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byArnold Fanck
Music byWerner R. Heymann
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 20 December 1927 (1927-12-20) (Germany)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent film,
German intertitles

The Great Leap (German: Der grosse Sprung) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Hans Schneeberger.[1] A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.[2]

  1. ^ Hinton p. 129.
  2. ^ Peabody, Seth (2021) “Image, Environment, Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm Humanities 10#1:38 doi.org/10.3390/h10010038