https://jasoncollin.org/2012/05/11/the-eiger-sanction-1975-movie-review/ The website for Jason Collin featuring his photography and movie & TV show reviews Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 https://jasoncollin.org/2012/05/11/the-eiger-sanction-1975-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-150703 Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:58:07 +0000 http://jasoncollin.org/?p=2235#comment-150703 Nice information.

]]> https://jasoncollin.org/2012/05/11/the-eiger-sanction-1975-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:42:07 +0000 http://jasoncollin.org/?p=2235#comment-1419 Yes, Nordwand should be seen first. Although the way Toni Kurz’s girlfriend climbs out of that railway hatch at night in a storm 1800 meters above a sheer drop without ropes hurt an otherwise great German movie. I almost wanted to stop watching at that point. Yeah, I get it. She wanted to keep him company as he hung way above her in the storm, but that wasn’t realistic. Not even an expert would do that and it wasn’t necessary to the plot or even the romantic sub-theme at all. And she not only spends the night on a ledge in an ice storm but sleeps there, without said ropes. She would have silently dropped into the void as soon as she drifted to sleep. Why would the producer of Nordwand hurt the historic reality that no girlfriend was standing on the cliff next to him, without ropes for herself, when he died? The Eiger Sanction didn’t make that mistake. I’d still like to find more details on how they filmed both movies. Would they really take a body off the face like that in a storm? In Nordwand they just threw the dead climbers off. I know they eventually retrieved the body of the famous Italian climber who died on the North Face in the late fifties or early sixties, but he was not far from the summit when he died and one could tie a rope around the body and lift it.

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