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Production Slate Political Climbers and Extraterrestrial Immigrants The German film North Face depicts an attempt by childhood friends Andreas Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas, left) and Toni Kurz (Benno Fürmann) to scale the treacherous north face of Eiger Mountain in 1936. A Perilous Peak by Jon Silberg In the early 1930s, as Adolf Hitler’s government set about working Germany into the racist and nationalistic fervor that would perpetuate World War II, mountaineers who were keen to conquer the treacherous north face of Switzerland’s Eiger Mountain provided the perfect iconography for the propagandists. The German film North Face (Nordwand) depicts the attempt by German mountaineers Toni Kurz (Benno Fürmann) and Andreas Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas) to scale the peak. Players in their story include the cynical newspaper editor (Ulrich Tukur) who wants to exploit their pursuit, and the climbers’ young journalist friend (Johanna Wokalek), who hopes the story will be her big break but grows 20 September 2009 increasingly worried about the pair’s safety. North Face was directed by Philipp Stölzl and photographed by Kolja Brandt, who won Germany’s Lola Award for his work on the picture. The two had collaborated on a number of music videos and commercials, but Brandt speculates that it was his documentary-style approach to the 2006 feature Tough Enough that sold Stölzl on his ability to meet North Face’s challenges. Stölzl was inspired by Kevin Macdonald’s documentary/dramatic reenactment hybrid Touching the Void (AC March ’04) and hoped to achieve a similar degree of realism in North Face. He and his collaborators eventually decided to first shoot stunt climbers on location, then shoot the actors in a studio, and do some elaborate compositing in post. In accordance with this plan, Stölzl, Brandt and a skeleton crew comprising a costumer, an assistant director and a few assistants traveled to Switzerland six months prior to principal photography and set about shooting on the Eiger and other nearby locations. Brandt’s goal was to get the camera in close to the climbers while maintaining the ability to read the surrounding environment. To achieve this, he and B-camera operator Tommy Ulrich were suspended by rope alongside the professional climbers and filmed with Arri 235s, pulling focus themselves. “I love to have the camera on my shoulder and be right where everything happens,” says Brandt, who spent three months training at a climbing gym before the shoot. “And luckily, I’m not afraid of heights!” The impetus North Face photos and frame grabs courtesy of Music Box Films. Additional photos courtesy of Kolja Brandt.
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Love Hate
Production Slate: North Face / District 9
Anarchy in the BRD
A Nazi’s Worst Nightmare
An Appetite for Crime
Testing Digital Cameras: Part 2
Post Focus: The Red Shoes / Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Alexander Gruszynski
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