February 9, 2010 - 7:30pm
Location: The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA

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 July of 1936 - less than a year after the most recent and fatal attempt, two top German mountaineers take up the challenge to become the first to scale the infamous rock face, the so-called Murder Wall.

Official Selection - 2008 Berlin International Film Festival

"Director Philipp Stölzl and his crew don't just capture the period clothes and equipment, they place the viewer right on the Eiger itself, struggling for handholds on precipitous cliffs as winds howl and the depths below yawn with terrifying clarity. Mountain climbing has rarely looked this exciting or dangerous onscreen." -Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"it is impossible not to put yourself in the boots of the mountaineers clinging to a sheer, icy rock face during a blizzard that threatens to send them into oblivion." -Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"more than delivers on the excitement and terror of this existential flirtation with one's own mortality." -Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

DIRECTOR: Philipp Stolzl
WRITERS: Christoph Silber, Philipp Stolzl, Rupert Henning, Johannes Naber
CAST: Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek
A Music Box Films Release
In German with English subtitles
126 min