Demon of the Himalayas

Demon of the Himalayas
Directed by	Andrew Marton
Written by	Eberhard Frowein Fritz Rau Mila Rau
Produced by	Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth
Starring	Gustav Diessl Erika Dannhoff Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth Jarmila Marton
Cinematography	Richard Angst
Music by	Arthur Honegger
Production company	Tramontana
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	16 March 1935 (1935-03-16)
Countries	Germany Switzerland
Language	German

Demon of the Himalayas (German: Der Dämon des Himalaya) is a 1935 German-Swiss co-production adventure film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff, and Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth. It is part of the Mountain film genre which was popular during the era.

Interior filming took place at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber. Location shooting was done during the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition and a number of the Expedition's participants appeared in the film. The film premiered in Zürich in March 1935. It received a mixed reception from critics. It was remade in Hollywood by Marton in 1952 as Storm Over Tibet.

Cast

• Gustav Diessl as Doctor Norman, Ethnologist
• Erika Dannhoff as Anne
• Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth as Professor Wille
• Jarmila Marton as Ellen
• Hans Winzeler as Doctor Winkler
• Hans Ertl as Hans
• Albert Höcht as Bertl
• André Roch as André
• James Belaieff as Jimmy
• Piero Ghiglione as Der italienische Bergsteiger und Journalist
• Dalib as Tibetanischer Träger
• Achmad as Tibetanischer Träger

Bibliography

• Holt, Lee Wallace (May 2008). Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900–1945 (PDF) (PhD). Austin: University of Texas. hdl:2152/3901.
• Pitts, Michael R. (2010). Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4447-2.

External links

• Demon of the Himalayas at IMDb