Based on a true story, North Face is a gripping edge-of-your-seat adventure drama about a 1936 expedition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the AIps, the North Face of the Eiger-aka the "Murder WaIl". The Eiger has never been successfuIIy climbed and, as the Berlin OIympics approach, Nazi propaganda urges German aIpinists to vanquish the mountain for the gIory of the Fatherland. lnitialIy reIuctant, two top young climbers, Toni Kurz (Benno Furmann, "Joyeux NoeI") and Andi Hinterstoisser (FIorian Lukas, "Good Bye Lenin!"), are persuaded to take up the chaIlenge by their chiIdhood friend Luise (Johanna WokaIek, "The Baader Meinhof CompIex"), now an aspiring photojournalist in BerIin, and her boss (Ulrich Tukur, "The Lives of Other"), a Ioyal Nazi looking for a good story. Soon the climb is on and what begins as a quest for gIory becomes a desperate fight for survivaI. |