The North Face

Based on actual events, North Face, from German director Philipp Stolzl, tells the story of two German climbers who try to ascend the “murder wall,” otherwise known as the north face of the Eiger, the last unconquered peak of the Alps.  It was 1936, the Olympics were coming to Berlin, and the Nazis were amping up the propaganda machine to prove Aryan superiority.  Bavarians Karl Mehringer and Max Sedlmeyer created a stir when they died during an attempt on the Eiger, so the Nazis decided Germans needed to climb it to become Olympic heroes.