Really Surprised!

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

A Brilliant Conflict

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I couldn't believe when i saw the bad comments about the film. Im an adventure fan and watched all kinds of adventure movies, but neither of them touched my heart so deeply.This was epic , realistic, and philosophic. At the end i had an understanding of what nature can do to us and how it is powerful. Human cant rule the nature , we must find out how to live in harmony with the nature. And love. It brings all the happiness and the sorrow. Its just like the nature. I was very inspired after watching the film so i started mounteneering. But many people will be scared of the mountains in my opinion after wathcing Nord Wand. It shows how an exciting adventure can go terribly bad. I really recommend this film. I think everyone must watch, its a undiscovered masterpiece.

"North Face" is a really good movie which has to do with a competition of climbing the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In this competition many countries took place with their best climbers and so Nazi did their best to succeed that as they urged the best Alpinists to climb the unclimbed north face of this mountain.If you are a climber or you like mountaineering then you have to see this movie because its the definition of the try of a climber to conquer the peak of a mountain. This feeling is one of the best feelings which a climber feels in such a moments, and this movie is full of that.Finally "North Face" is a really good movie which I strongly recommend it to you because it will make you feel a really different feelings and you will understand how hard is to succeed in such a competition.

This is a beautifully shot film, and captures the feel of 1930's Germany. The actors are very believable and the climbing scenes and scenery, stunning. I wondered how they filmed the climbing scenes so realistically, and found out in the extras that although they employed special effects and CGI images, they are so realistic and well integrated that you absolutely cannot tell where they used the effects. The storyline is gripping, made even more so knowing that the movie was based on actual events. The actual account on Wikipedia is even more heartbreaking. Easily one of the best mountaineering movies out there, along with "Touching the Void".

"One has lived if one has loved." LuiseIn 1936, Nazi Germany was eager to propagandize the race for "the last remaining problem in the Alps," scaling the face of the treacherous Eiger. Enter into the race dutiful Germans Toni (Benno Furmann) and Andi (Florian Lukas); the race is on with two Austrians as competitors in a climbing romance called North Face. Touching the Void (2004) was more harrowing and less boy-girl romantic, but this emphasis on non-climbing romance I can love or hate depending on how demanding I am at the moment about the purity of the climb.The political subtext is apparent—as Germany is about to annex Austria and the Olympics are imminent, a win on the Eiger would be good for the Nazis. Much as this is a suspenseful adventure of love for climbing, based on a true story, it is also a love story, connecting climber Toni and Luise (Johanna Wolkolek), a photographer and childhood friend of both mountaineers. It is she who watches the adventurers throughout the suspenseful climb and return, kissing Toni only once.That minimalism pervades the film as no kiss goes any further and no rappel is overly dramatized—they are what they are set against the majestic Alps and the cruel Swiss massif. (That the Eiger "ogre" waits to devour anyone who tries the North Face may be fanciful; nonetheless what happens to the best of climbers would give even the sternest skeptic reason to pause about that legend). The editing is first-rate: Never for a moment did I think it is a movie made not on location and with actors because the shots are believable and wild.Parallel cutting to the comfortable lodge with waiting reporters, dignitaries, and telescope gawkers serves as a convenient counterpoint to the harrowing climb. At times, I wanted to throttle the insouciant ones who seemed oblivious to the life and death struggle on the mountain.The most beautiful day I ever spent hiking was down the Jungfrau with the Eiger seemingly all around. My Facebook portrait is of me standing at a crest with that most dangerous Alpine rock face as background. I loved that day, that mountain, and this film.