WHITE HELL OF PITZ PALU, THE [DIE WEISSE HÖLLE VOM PIZ PALÜ] (1929; 1935 RR) German photo

Vintage original 9 x 11″ (23 x 29 cm.) double weight glossy sepia-tinted silver gelatin print still photo, Germany. Leni Riefenstahl, Gustave Diessl, Ernst Petersen, dir: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst; Sokal-Film. Includes Berlin blind stamp, imprinted title and film company logos. Photo numbered 39. Ink stamp number on verso. Embossed stamp of German censorship board, Berlin. Irregularly trimmed, with various pinholes in all four corners, near fine.

Because of her great success in the mountain climbing-themed Der heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain), Riefenstahl appeared in several films with the same theme. They would be distributed in the US by Universal. By the time this film, Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (The White Hell of Pitz Palu), was in re-release, she had become Hitler’s number one filmmaker.

This still is for the 1935 sound version through H.T. Film.