Sepp Allgeier

Sepp Allgeier (February 6, 1895 – March 11, 1968) was a German cinematographer who worked on around fifty features, documentaries and short films. He began his career as an assistant to Arnold Fanck, a leading director of Mountain films. He worked frequently with Luis Trenker and Leni Reifenstahl, both closely associated with the genre. He was Reifenstahl's lead cameraman on her 1935 propaganda film Triumph of the Will. During the Second World War, Allgeier filmed material for newsreels. He later worked in West German television.^[1] His son is the cinematographer Hans-Jörg Allgeier.

Selected filmography

• Mountain of Destiny (1924)
• The Holy Mountain (1926)
• The Great Leap (1927)
• Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
• Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
• The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1930)
• Mountains on Fire (1931)
• The Rebel (1932)
• William Tell (1934)
• The Champion of Pontresina (1934)
• Friesennot (1935)
• Escape Me Never (1935)
• Ewiger Wald (1936)
• Militiaman Bruggler (1936)
• The Great Barrier (1937)
• The Mountain Calls (1938)
• A German Robinson Crusoe (1940)
• Wetterleuchten um Barbara (1941)

References

Bibliography

• Reimer, Robert Charles & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

External links

• Sepp Allgeier at the Internet Movie Database