Demon of the Himalayas

1935 film

Eberhard Frowein
Fritz Rau
Mila Rau

Produced byGünter Oskar DyhrenfurthStarring

Gustav Diessl
Erika Dannhoff
Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Jarmila Marton

CinematographyRichard AngstMusic byArthur Honegger

Production
company

Tramontana

Distributed byTobis Film

Release date

16 March 1935 (1935-03-16)

Countries

Germany
Switzerland

LanguageGerman

Demon of the Himalayas (German: Der Dämon des Himalaya) is a 1935 German-Swiss 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.

Interior filming took place at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber. 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 Zürich in March 1935.^[1] It received a mixed reception from critics.^[2] It was remade in Hollywood by Marton in 1952 as Storm Over Tibet.^[3]

Cast

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

References

^ Holt, pp. 299–300.
^ Holt, p. 303.
^ Pitts, p. 229.

Bibliography

Holt, Lee Wallace (May 2008). Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900–1945 (PDF) (PhD). Austin: University of Texas. hdl:2152/3901.
Pitts, Michael R. (2010). Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4447-2.