Der Dämon des Himalaya

German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).

Cast

Gustav Diessl

Erika Dannhoff

Günther Oskar Dyhrenfurth

Jarmila Vacková

Hans Winzeler

Hans Ertl

Albert Höcht

André Roch

James Belaieff

Piero Ghiglione

Dalib

Machmad

Josef Dahmen

Paul Rehkopf

Rudolf Biebrach

Valeska Stock

Ernst Karchow

Karl Jönsson

Rio Nobile

Jenny Leyde

Marcel Kurz