In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph, Hannes (Sepp Rist) communicates with a beautiful astronomer (Leni Riefenstahl) and is occasionally visited by an airplane pilot (Ernst Udet) upon whom he depends on supplies. In the midst of a ferocious snowstorm, Hannes loses his gloves and his weather station is battered by the elements. Suffering frostbite and unable to descend the mountain, he sends out a desperate S.O.S. in the hope that someone can brave the elements and rescue him from certain death. Eerily romantic and overshadowed by the constant threat of doom, "Storm Over Mont Blanc" is a "quintessential" mountain film by Arnold Fanck, the genre's innovator and unparalleled master.
Sepp Rist
as Wetterwart Hannes
Leni Riefenstahl
as Hella Armstrong
Friedrich Kayssler
as Astronom Armstrong
Ernst Udet
as Flieger Udet
Mathias Wieman
as Organist Walter Petersen
David Zogg
as
Beni Führer
as
Julius Rähmi
as
Guzzi Lantschner
as
Otto Lantschner
as
Benno Leubner
as
Otto Leubner
as
