Demon of the Himalayas

Demon of the Himalayas
Directed by	Andrew Marton
Produced by	Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Written by	Eberhard Frowein Fritz Rau Mila Rau
Starring	Gustav Diessl Erika Dannhoff Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth Jarmila Marton
Music by	Arthur Honegger
Cinematography	Richard Angst
Production company	Tramontana
Distributed by	Tobis
Release dates	16 March 1935
Country	Switzerland, Germany
Language	German

Demon of the Himalayas (German: Der Dämon des Himalaya) is a 1935 Swiss-German co-production adventure film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff and Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth. It is part of the Mountain film genre which was popular during the era.

Location shooting was done during the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition and a number of the Expedition's participants appeared in the film. The film premiered in Zurich in March 1935.^[1] It received a mixed reception from critics.^[2] It was remade by Marton in 1952 as Storm Over Tibet.

Cast

Gustav Diessl - Doctor Norman - Ethnologist
Erika Dannhoff - Anne
Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth - Professor Wille
Jarmila Marton - Ellen
Hans Winzeler - Doctor Winkler
Hans Ertl - Hans
Albert Höcht - Bertl
André Roch - André
James Belaieff - Jimmy
Piero Ghiglione - Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist
Dalib - Tibetanischer Träger
Achmad - Tibetanischer Träger

References

↑ Holt p.299-300
↑ Holt p.303

Bibliography

Holt, Lee Wallace. Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900-1945. ProQuest, 2008.

External links

Demon of the Himalayas at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Andrew Marton

Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929)
Demon of the Himalayas (1935)
Wolf's Clothing (1936)
Secret of Stamboul (1936)
School for Husbands (1937)
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Gentle Annie (1944)
Gallant Bess (1946)
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Storm over Tibet (1951)
The Wild North (1952)
Prisoner of War (1954)
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Green Fire (1954)
Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
Underwater Warrior (1958)
Oh Islam (1961)
It Happened in Athens (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
The Thin Red Line (1964)
Crack in the World (1965)
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
Birds Do It (1966)
Africa Texas Style (1967)

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