2009/10/18 North Face (Nordwand) (PG-13) (* * * * */5) (Talk Cinema)

(2008-Germany) d Philip Stolzl (German with subtitles) (Action/Adventure, Drama)

Stars Benno Furmann (Toni Kurz), Johanna Wokalek (Luise Fellner), Florian Lukas (Andi Hinterstoisser), Simon Schwartz (Willy Angerer), George Friedrich (Edi Rainer), Ulrich Tukur (Henry Arau)

Set in the summer of 1936, this is a true story of mountain climbers that want to achieve what no one has done before them and that was to climb up the North Face of the Eiger on the border of Germany and Switzerland. There is a competition between 3 or 4 teams to see who can reach the summit first from this side.

A journalist from a newspaper comes from the same town as 2 climbers that attempt the feat, and she is there to report on the outcome. They never made it, nor the other 2 climbers that went with them up the North Face.

This film had me sitting on the edge of my seat the entire time. Never a dull moment. I thoroughly enjoyed it.