Nanga Parbat (film)
- Florian Stetter: Reinhold Messner
- Andrew Tobias: Günther Messner
- Karl Markovic: Karl Maria Herrligkoffer
- Sebastian Bezzel: Peter Scholz
- Volker Bruch: Gerhard Baur
- Michael Kranz: Hans Saler
- Horst Kummeth: Father Messner
- Lena Stolze: Mother Messner
- Jule Ronstedt: Alice von Hobe
- Markus Krojer: Reinhold Messner as a child
Nanga Parbat is a film by German film director Joseph Vilsmaier from the year 2010. The film focuses on the Siegi - Loew Memorial expedition to Nanga Parbat in 1970, when Reinhold Messner's brother Günther died. The film shows the events from the perspective of Reinhold Messner, which is why there is some controversy regarding the accuracy of some of his information. The circumstances under which Günther Messner was killed since 1970 are the subject of several lawsuits, book publications and numerous discussions.
Background
The drama about the Nanga Parbat climb and death Günther Messner was filmed based on the memories of Reinhold Messner and without the participation of the other former members of the expedition. Reinhold Messner acted as a consultant during the filming of the director. The movie was shown in mid- January 2010 in cinemas and is not completely authentic documentation of those events. Several members of the expedition of 1970 and the son of the former expedition leader Karl Herrligkoffer criticize the presentation Herrligkoffers in the film massively; this appears there as a part of autocratic, unsympathetic tyrant and the other as a hesitant, not what he was after the testimony of several witnesses. That conclusion is contrary to the statement by Georg Kirner, Karl Maria Herrligkoffer also knew from an expedition and its representation perceived as " too good " in the film. From former expedition members deliberately not historical facts following representation of various scenes in the film is also criticized, such as the scene when Reinhold Messner and Felix Kuen have been in the gutter Merkl call contact, or the summit scene with Felix Kuen and Peter Scholz.
Criticism
" The still controversial today in its causes misfortune is rolled up from two perspectives from which Reinhold Messner and the remaining in the base camp expedition leader. This results in a moderately exciting and wide contoured walztes guilt complex drama, which also lacks the directorial flair for the imposing scenery of high mountains developed. "