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TO THE THIRD POLE
by Andreas Nickel and Juergen Czwienk FILM | ADVENTURE | ORAL-HISTORY | FAMILY
Norman Dyhrenfurth, a sprightly ninety year old, tells for the
first time the fascinating history of his parents' role in the race
to "The Third Pole", the highest mountains on earth.
Two expeditions during the 1930s which stand up to their Nazi
rivals‚ 'state-sponsored' beats them in setting world climbing
records.
In doing so, Guenter and Hettie Dyhrenfurth take the first
moving pictures in high altitude during their Himalaya expeditions.
Norman Dyhrenfurth himself put the first Americans on the top of Mount Everest in 1963 and
led the first traverse of any 8000-metres mountain. He was participant or the leader of seven major
Himalaya expeditions, many of which achieved Firsts‚ and he filmed every bit of it. The film features
mountaineering legends Sir Chris Bonington and Reinhold Messner. In their engaging interviews they
put the Dyhrenfurth family saga into contemporary context and convey an intense compassion for the
heroic achievements and tragic failures of this family.
German title: ZUM DRITTEN POL
Festivals/awards: Torelló / Grand Prize/Golden Edelweiss, Silver Edelweiss, Best Script;
Explorers Club NY / Best Exploration Film; Moscow / Special Jury Award; Banff / Finalist Best feature lenght Mountain
Film; Graz / GoldenCamera, Best Documentary; Rhode Island / Grand Prize Best Cinematography
86min or 2x45min or 52min | HDCAM | 1080/25p | DigiBeta | DigiBeta | color & s/w | German or English version
THE TRACERS is a film on nameless corpses, on economic subsidy fraud and Peruvian mummies.
Focus lies on two natural scientists from Munich with an outstanding knowledge of applicating isotope
analysis as a research method far beyond its properly scientific discipline, which is palaeontology.
The sophisticated lab they have established differs from ordinary chemistry labs and is engaged by
many different clients. The proportions of isotopes within chemical elements are determined by external
impact such as climate, food and environmental conditions. The film highlights three research
cases and is going on spot of each: forensic science in a murder case, tracing the origin of regional
food, and archaeological excavations at Nasca in Peru.
German title: DIE SPURENLESER
43min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | German or French version
West Berlin, Lankwitz. In May 1969, my 19-year-old brother
Reinhard announced to my father, my mother and myself that
within a few days he would be moving over to the GDR and
applying for East German citizenship. Contacts were broken off.
The film is a search for traces for the possible stations of my
brother in East Germany, who was disappointed that there was
no revolution in the West.
In the course of my search I encounter Salomea G., who
consciously chose the other system and Henriette S., who moved to the GDR with her mother as a
teenager. A search for the history and the allure of the other part of Germany.
90min or 52 min | HDV |16:9 | 35 mm planned | original German version with English subtitles available
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german documentaries 2009
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ExplorerMedia GmbH & Co. KG
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THE TRACERS
On a Scientific Method Of Unraveling Mysteries
by Hildegard Kriwet SCIENCE | NATURE
Production:
telekult
Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH
Kremmener Str. 6
10435 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 30-44673774
fax: +49 (0) 30 44673777
keller@telekult.de
www.telekult.de
TRANSIT
by Angela Zumpe GERMAN-REUNIFICATION | PORTRAIT | HISTORY
Contact:
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Angela Zumpe
Kyffhaeuser Str. 73
10777 Berlin, Germany
tel/fax.: + 49 (0) 30-68836352
info@paste-up.de
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