Arnold Fanck is remembered on screen for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Arnold Fanck as German film director (1889-1974).
Arnold Fanck was born at Frankenthal in 1889. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the silent era, when film was still proving it could carry a story at all and performers had to do it without a spoken word.
The record gives his roles in the industry as film director, film producer and screenwriter.
His name is attached above all to extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain, The White Hell of Pitz Palu, Storm over Mont Blan. A film outlives its reviews, its budget and usually its studio; what remains is whether anyone still watches it.
That the work was made from Germany shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Arnold Fanck died in 1974, aged 85. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Worked as film director, film producer and screenwriter
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