A mountain film is a film genre that focuses on mountaineering and especially the battle of human against nature. In addition to mere adventure, the protagonists who return from the mountain come back changed, usually gaining wisdom and enlightenment.
A still from the 1929 German film The White Hell of Pitz Palu.
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.
Riefenstahl in a 1930s postcard honoring her for the propaganda film Olympia
Riefenstahl (right) in Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (1925)
Riefenstahl stands near Heinrich Himmler while instructing her camera crew at Nuremberg, 1934.
Riefenstahl and a camera crew stand in front of Hitler's car during the 1934 rally in Nuremberg.