Reinhold Messner
Also Known As: رينولد ميسنر, Райнхольд Месснер
Biography: Reinhold Messner, born September 17, 1944 in Bressanone/Brixen in South Tyrol, is a German-speaking Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century. A great defender of the alpine style and destroyer of the expedition style, he is notably known for having made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen supply with Peter Habeler, in May 1978, and was the first to have climbed the fourteen peaks more 8,000 meters in 1986.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy
Birthday: September 17, 1944
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Gender: Male
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Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
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Genres: Documentary Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-09-15
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Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell
Overview: Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
Overview: In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months. (The previous record was eight years). He called the effort “Project Possible 14/7” and saw it as a way to inspire others to strive for greater heights in any pursuit. The film follows his team as they seek to defy naysayers and push the limits of human endurance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Là-Haut, Un supplément d'âme
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Denis Urubko - My Own Way
Overview: Denis Urubko is one of the strongest Himalayan climbers of all time: he has climbed all 8000 meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, establishing new alpine style routes on Broad Peak, Manaslu, Cho Oyu and Lhotse. He also made the first winter ascents of Makalu and Gasherbrum II. Add to his legend, the incredible rescue of Elisabeth Revol in distress on the Nanga Parbat in January 2018, and that of about eight other climbers. Urubko's story is simply unique, tells us about him and his journey to becoming the best in very high mountains. Denis Urubko is not just an exceptional climber, he is a true legend whose feats of arms will remain etched in the history of mountaineering.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Lhotse - l'anno nero del serpente
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Genres: Documentary Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Simone Moro, I-View
Overview: Thanks to his perseverance, the Italian Simone Moro has written pages in the history of mountaineering, especially winter mountaineering on peaks over 8,000 meters high. I-VIEW tells of his adventure as a helicopter pilot and his dream of bringing helicopter rescue to the Himalayas.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
Overview: An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams. Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-03-27
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The Dark Glow of the Mountain
Overview: Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-09
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Messner
Overview: Born in 1944 in South Tyrol, Reinhold Messner was introduced to climbing peaks by his father as a child. He has since climbed the fourteen mountains of the world culminating at more than 8,000 meters, and notably has to his credit the first ascent of Everest alone and without oxygen in 1980. This portrait is made up of the story given by mountaineer of his journey as well as testimonies from his loved ones and traveling companions. The interviews are interspersed with reconstructed scenes and extracts from archive films recounting his exploits. But there is no question here of becoming hagiographic, because Messner also draws his strength from his failures. When he's not climbing or roaming the desert, this troublemaker devotes his energy to various causes. In his Juval castle, located in his native South Tyrol, he exhibits the equipment of his expeditions as well as various objects, notably Tibetan. He has also written around fifty works to date.
Genres: Adventure Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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Everest Unmasked
Overview: Record of the first ascent of Everest made without the use of oxygen equipment, made in May 1978 by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Could it be done? Would their blood vessels burst? Would they suffer brain damage leading to madness? Nobody was sure. Messner: 'I would never come here for trying Everest with oxygen. That is not a challenge for me.' A fascinating piece of history, well filmed by Leo Dickinson and Eric Jones (above the South Col Messner used a cine camera to continue the filming), featuring Messner and Habeler's thoughts. The film follows the usual sequence from Namche to Base Camp, through the Icefall, to Camps I, II and III. It also shows historical footage of the pioneering Mallory and Shipton expeditions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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Viktor & I: An Alexander Vesely Film
Overview: For the first time, Dr. Victor Frankl through the eyes of those closest to him. A defining character of the 20th century, not only a genius, doctor and survivor of Nazi terror and tragedy but a man who lived, believed and loved.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
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Galahad of Everest
Overview: Brian Blessed plays George Mallory in this intrepid recreation of his ill fated 1924 climb to Everest. Meeting Sir Chris Bonington, Rheinhold Messnerhe learns of the pitfalls that await him before setting off for his epic struggle with the mountain. Against all odds he reaches 26000 feet on the North face of Everest, and is a changed man
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-07
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Higher, Further, More Extreme - Pioneers and Adventurers
Overview: Sailing around the world alone at 14, a parachute jump from 38,000 metres, climbing Mount Everest without oxygen - what drives men and women to such daring adventures?
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-08-21
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Niemanns Zeit - Ein deutscher Heimatfilm
Overview: A lone scholar researches the visual and textual worlds of National Socialism. The film approaches a critical understanding of "German identity" from a multimedia perspective - off-screen commentary is superimposed over shots of paintings, literary quotations over feature film sequences and at the center of the film is a television debate on the subject of nature. The focus is on the German concept of "Heimat" and its connection to romantic notions of nature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-02-17
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The Last Expedition
Overview: The true story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the first woman in the world and the first person from Poland to climb the highest peaks on earth, told by herself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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The Dream Line
Overview: Dream Line is a documentary about the magical power of dreams. It tells the story of professional skier Ptor Spricenieks’ life as a skier and adventurer, follows an astonishing spiritual and physical journey, and shows that dreams can come reality. The film revolves around a recent expedition to Pakistan where some of the world’s best big-mountain skiers together climb and ski the Gashot Peak, a magnificent adventure in a mind-blowing environment. It is an important milestone in the fascinating life of Ptor, which contains elements of physical achievements and spiritual coincidences that can only be explained by the power of dreaming.
Genres: Adventure Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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Walter Bonatti, King of the Alps
Overview: Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineering: K2, Drus, G4, Matterhorn, to name a few. But the summits reached are not points of arrival, they are intermediate stages which then push him on a journey around the world, in search of himself. His exploration, starting from the vertical walls, then moved towards horizontal paths and was always expressed towards the interior space where our fears and our desires reside. Where the man, sitting alone in front of himself, must decide to surpass himself or to adapt. And Walter never complied with them, he wrote his own rules and followed them all his life, allowing himself no loopholes or shortcuts. He built himself as a mountaineer, as an explorer, as a photojournalist and as a writer, but always and only with the intention of being an uncompromising man with his hands, his muscles, his heart and his head.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
Overview: High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deepest story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Showcasing the daring and visionary efforts of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the film examines the sheer commitment, step-by-step struggle and lasting impact of America's first ascent of Mount Everest and the pioneering first ascent of West Ridge by Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Five decades later, High and Hallowed returns to Everest to find out if the essence of risk, adventure and the unknown that drew the first Americans to the summit still exists on Everest today.
Genres: Adventure Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Manaslu - Road to the Mountain, Road to a Friend
Overview: On May 9, 1956, for the first time, the man stepped on the 8163-meter-high Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world. In the fifty years of a long series of tragedies and triumphs in the mountain, two Slovenians were among the featured protagonists. On April 24, 1983, two climbers from Yugoslavia, trying to climb Manaslu from the south face, were buried under an avalanche. One of them was Nejc Zaplotnik, one of the most notable Slovenian climbers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sl
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Art of Freedom
Overview: The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned the highest mountaintops of the world for more than 20 years. They not only set down new trails, but new rules of behavior. They set themselves apart with an original style of climbing, endurance, conscientiousness about the overall well-being of the team - and solidarity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-21
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Reinhold Messner - Il quindicesimo 8000
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia
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Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
Overview: Fred Beckey is the legendary American "Dirtbag" mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones around campfires. This rebel climber's pioneering ascents and lifestyle form an iconic legacy that continues to inspire generations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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Yeti: Myth, Man or Beast?
Overview: A scientific search by Mark Evans
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-29
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Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Overview: The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-12-13
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Still Alive - Dramma Sul Monte Kenya
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Genres: Adventure Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Fine Lines
Overview: For nearly three years, director Dina Khreino interviewed world-class mountain climbing athletes, listening to what compels them to leave behind families, friends, and everyday comforts to risk everything for a fleeting glimpse into the unknown. What she found was a tribe, a diverse group of professional adventurers and amateur philosophers forged by the ultimate test of body, mind, and spirit. In the face of shifting winds, sheer granite cliffs, and impossible odds, they climb. Each for their own reason, but every one connected by the vertical world. In this rarefied air, these athletes are fundamentally changed, not just as climbers, but as human beings.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Holy Mountain
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Peter Habeler: ... ich will die Welt von oben sehen
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Alpinist
Overview: Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-07
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Nanga Parbat - Mein Schlüsselberg
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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Kukuczka
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Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-10-21
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Jurek
Overview: This documentary follows the feats of high-altitude climber Jerzy Kukuczka and his ascent to higher heights before his death in 1989.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-10-08
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