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Film Movement volume 12, film 12
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Deutsch
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Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he’s from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn’t given...
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Deutsch
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In telling the story of German-born pioneer John Sutter, famous for the gold discovery at his mill, actor/director Luis Trenker returned to the awe-inspiring vistas and daring feats of rock-climbing that had made his mountain films such a sensation. The result is a film whose style is deeply Germanic and spectacularly American at the same time, virtually unseen in the United States, before this 2K restoration by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung....
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