Demon of the Himalayas

Demon of the Himalayas
Directed by	Andrew Marton
Produced by	Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Written by	Eberhard Frowein Fritz Rau Mila Rau
Starring	Gustav Diessl Erika Dannhoff Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth Jarmila Marton
Music by	Arthur Honegger
Cinematography	Richard Angst
Production company	Tramontana
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	16 March 1935
Country	Germany Switzerland
Language	German

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.

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 Zurich 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.

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

Bibliography

• Holt, Lee Wallace. Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900-1945. ProQuest, 2008.

External links

• Demon of the Himalayas on IMDb