The focus of the next session for the English-language KINO! FILM SALON online film club on March 16th will be NORTH FACE by Philipp Stölzl. In 2008 the film celebrated its world premiere on the Piazza Grande at the famous Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. The gripping adventure movie was the winner of the GERMAN FILM CRITICS AWARDS 2009 for BEST SCREENPLAY and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY and the winner of two GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2009 - BEST SOUND DESIGN and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY.

Commentary on the film by Jim Kolmar, Curator of German Film: “In Philipp Stölzl’s striking drama, Johanna Wokalek (BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX) plays Luise, a secretary and greenhorn reporter at a Berlin newspaper in 1936. Not one to take no for an answer, she somehow convinces her bosses to let her cover an intrepid attempt to scale the Eiger by two Alpinists who also happen to be her childhood friends. What follows is an engrossing adventure film, full of startling Alpine vistas and suspenseful climbing sequences, but never losing sight of the human drama at its core. Johanna Wokalek, Benno Fürmann (MERRY CHRISTMAS) and Florian Lukas (GOOD BYE, LENIN) deliver heartfelt performances in a film that combines a classic adventure film with a historical drama charting the years of emerging National Socialism ahead of World War 2. It's a unique mix, and a great example of modern German cinema at its most accessible, exciting and intelligent.”

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Date and time: Sunday, March 16th at 11:00am – 12:00pm PT | 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET | 8:00pm – 9:00pm CET
Hosted by Jim Kolmar

KINO! FILM SALON is a production of Telescope Film, in collaboration with the German Film Office

Trailer: here