GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

SnoopyStyle It's 1936. The Eiger North Face is last unconquered challenge in the Alps. The Nazi propaganda machine wants it defeated by German climbers before the upcoming Olympics. Luise Fellner is a secretary working in a Berlin newspaper. She tells her bosses that she knows men who could do the climb. She, Andi Hinterstoisser and Toni Kurz are childhood friends. Hinterstoisser is eager to try anything. Kurz is more level-headed and refuses to do the climb. Luise goes along with her boss Henry Arau anyways to cover two Austrians making the ascend. Kurz relents and the two friends make the attempt.The relationship between Hinterstoisser and Kurz is great. The cynical sexist reporters are great. The romantic element isn't quite as compelling. I almost wish that part gets less attention after the climb starts although it's compelling to see the juxtaposition between the comfortable resort and the harsh climb. The climb up is harrowing. It treats mountain climbing seriously where rock falls causes real injuries. This doesn't feel fake except for the girlfriend.

Thanos Karagioras "North Face" is a really good movie which has to do with a competition of climbing the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In this competition many countries took place with their best climbers and so Nazi did their best to succeed that as they urged the best Alpinists to climb the unclimbed north face of this mountain.If you are a climber or you like mountaineering then you have to see this movie because its the definition of the try of a climber to conquer the peak of a mountain. This feeling is one of the best feelings which a climber feels in such a moments, and this movie is full of that.Finally "North Face" is a really good movie which I strongly recommend it to you because it will make you feel a really different feelings and you will understand how hard is to succeed in such a competition.

nzallblacks_12 Big picture this: it's 1936 in the 'old world'. Post-depression Europe is just awakening from the dredges of a dark period. At center stage though awaits Germany. Now the cacophonous chant, 'Heil Hilter', echoes throughout resurgent Deutschland. Well, in the film that catchy phrase is decried at least five times. Once though, I heard 'Bye Hilter'!The new Chancellor, Mr. Hilter had grand designs for his people. And with the capitol, Berlin, hosting the Summer Olympics what better stage was there to set out on world domination?For sure, the Third Reich is in search of fresh heroes. Hilter dearly wants to showcase the German youth's indomitable spirit. The whole world watched with tense anticipation.Two young Bavarian Alpinists, Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser are dolefully deployed as hard boots down on the ground in the Wehrmacht's Bavarian Mountain Brigade. Often we are shown that these two German recruits dream of greater heights, ostensibly far away from the army. Mr. Hilter and his band of merry henchmen dream big too. The rest of Europe though shudders at learning those lofty thoughts.Soon, both the would-be adventurers and the Deutsch Reich find a common target. Their goal is to scale Europe's last unscaled mountain: the Eiger North Face. However, local lore gave it a different name: the Ogre Face.Located in the Swiss canton of Berne, the Eiger peak poses a formidable challenge. A year earlier, the towering granite peak claimed the lives of two other ace Munchen mountaineers: Karl Sedlmayer and Max Mehringer.Enter the German media at the behest of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry...Luise, an aspiring reporter with the Berliner Zeitung also hails from the same Bavarian village as the two main protagonists. Straight away she's hot on their tail (Toni's). So are two Austrian crack mountaineers.The Austrian duo too aspires to be good Nazis. And the 'true' German males have visions of grandeur. Their mission from on high is financed by none other than their local SA chapter. It couldn't be any other way. They said so!Now we have all the right ingredients for a grand spectacle. If you can set aside the 'politiks' couched in most sentences, 'North Face' is a fine film about courage and grace under extreme pressure. Hemingway would've approved of the movie script. I'm sure of that.Along the way director, Phillip Stolzl even hints that 'love' is indeed the motivation behind everything. Work, play, ambition, desire and even sport are all affected by this magical elixir. Why else would man take to scaling high mountains while battling their inner selves as well as nature? And the Eiger rising straight up to more than 13,000 feet proves to be a worthy challenge even fearsome foe.On the other hand, the Austrian team competition lends its hands/feet/heads though unwittingly to help speed fate to the pinnacle. For certain, the film's finale is nothing short of a spellbinding, heart pounding adventure at its zenith.No doubt, Nordwand is the epitome of all mountain climbing films; I haven't seen its equal.My verdict is this: a perfect 10 Stars.Alleluia!

tploomis This is one of the best mountaineering films -- up there with Touching the Void. It is artfully constructed, beginning with a lighthearted romp in the Alps by the two protagonist climbers and ending with the full menacing power of the Eiger pounding them as they fight for their lives. It evokes the terror of people off for an adventure and getting in way over their heads. The terrorizing scenes on the mountain contrast with the spectators below, who warm themselves by a cozy fire and drink wine and eat fine food, dimly aware of what the mountaineers are going through, yet caught up in the romance of a first ascent of the North Face, as seen through a telescope on the deck of the restaurant. The movie is a meditation on the role of the press and the chasm between the news account of an event and the reality of the event itself. News reports are as detached from the reality of what is occurring on the mountain as the spectators with their telescopes down below.The climbing seems authentic -- there is no Sylvester Stallone swinging by one hand with a grimace on his face, no Tom Cruise doing a fancy back-to-the-wall climbing move never before seen on a rock wall. These are either very competent mountaineers or very good facsimiles.The female love interest evolves through the movie. At first she is a mousy secretary, easily bullied by her supervisors. Eventually she finds her own strength, and in doing so she begins acting on the basis of what she thinks is important and becomes an appealing person in her own right. The photography is stunning.