NORTH FACE

**Ends THURSDAY, APRIL 8th**

"CRITIC'S PICK! A transfixing, well-told life-and-death adventure tale." - Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Edge of the Seat Suspenseful!" - Anthony Quinn, THE INDEPENDENT

"A Gripping Cliffhanger!" - Philip French, THE OBSERVER (UK)

"Stunning!" - EMPIRE MAGAZINE

Based on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. In 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif, the Eiger, bringing two reluctant climbers, Toni Kurz (Benno Furmann, MERRY CHRISTMAS) and Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas, GOODBYE, LENIN!), to begin their daring ascent and attempt to scale the infamous rock face, often called the Murder Wall.
While preparing themselves at the foot of the North Face, Toni and Andi unexpectedly run into Luise (Johanna Wokalek, THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX), the early love of Toni. Now a journalist, she has come with her boss Arau (Ulrich Tukur, WHITE RIBBON), a loyal Nazi, to report about the first ascent. Toni begins the ascent of the North Face with Andi, closely followed by two Austrians, Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer. All goes well at first as both rope teams make good headway but when the climbers unexpectedly lose their advantage over the mountain, the race against time and the forces of nature begins.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.northfacethemovie.com/

Read an interview with director Philipp Stolzl:
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/philipp_stoelzl/