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20-557: Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made before World War I. In 1917, he ventured into film directing for the first time. Before the arrival of sound films he worked for a period in Germany in films directed by Luis Trenker . Back in Italy in 1932, he became a prolific director working with the major stars of

40-753: A PhD in geology , directed mountain films, sports films and ski films . He was assisted by Sepp Allgeier , a cameraman who later worked with Leni Riefenstahl , and worked mostly in the Alps in locations such as the Engadine , Zermatt and the Arlberg and on mountains such as Mont Blanc and Piz Palü . His most popular and successful films of the period between the wars include The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933)—all starring Leni Riefenstahl . During

60-510: A historical film The Rebel . Trenker stated that the film's plotline of a Tyrolean mountaineer Severin Anderlan leading a revolt against occupying French forces in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars . The greatest Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer was a proto-type of "Severin Anderlan" ... Trenker was designed to mirror what was happening in contemporary Germany as it rejected the terms of

80-641: A business partnership with the Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister . In 1924, Trenker participated in the Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix as a member of the Italian five-man bobsled team. Under the leadership of Pilot Lodovico Obexer, they ended up in sixth place. Trenker's first contact with film came in 1921, when he helped director Arnold Fanck on one of his mountain films . The main actor could not perform

100-741: A contract from the Japanese ministry of culture in 1936. With The Daughter of the Samurai and other "culture films," Fanck decided to cooperate with the Nazi regime. Soon afterward, he produced A German Robinson Crusoe (1938/40) a propaganda film for Bavaria Filmkunst . Fanck joined the NSDAP in April 1940. In 1944 he made a documentary about the sculptor Arno Breker called Arno Breker – Harte Zeit, starke Kunst . After World War II , Fanck's main films made during

120-404: A pair of documentary films, however, Trenker returned to Bolzano and stopped making films. The style he had developed in the thirties was not limited to nationalistic, folkloristic, and heroic clichés. His impersonation of a hungry, downtrodden immigrant in depression era New York was regarded as one of the seminal scenes for future Italian neorealism by the likes of Roberto Rossellini . Trenker

140-552: The Nazi regime , Fanck got in trouble with propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels , since he refused to cooperate — apparently because of the necessity of joining the party. In 1934, he also began working on his film, The Eternal Dream , which not only starred a French hero in French mountains, but also had a Jewish producer , Gregor Rabinovitch . This conflict brought Fanck economic difficulties from which he escaped only by accepting

160-754: The Technical University in Vienna. At the start of World War I , Trenker fought as a cadet in an Austro-Hungarian heavy artillery unit on the Eastern Front in Galicia and Russisch-Polen . From 1915 to 1918, he fought in the mountain war against Italy, from 1916 in one of the Mountain Guide Companies ( k.k. Bergführerkompanien  [ de ] ) in the Dolomites . At the end of the war he had achieved

180-564: The Treaty of Versailles . The main theme of Trenker's work was the idealization of peoples connection with their homeland and pointing out the decadence of city life (most clearly visible in his 1934 film Der verlorene Sohn ( The Prodigal Son ). This loosely played into the hands of Nazi propagandists, who seized upon the nationalistic elements of his work. However, Trenker refused to allow his work to be subverted as such and eventually moved to Rome in 1940 to avoid further governmental pressure. After

200-581: The Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl , Luis Trenker , and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier , Richard Angst , Hans Schneeberger , and Walter Riml . Arnold Fanck was born on 6 March 1889 in Frankenthal , Germany. Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern , Bernhard Villinger and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Fanck, who held

220-546: The age 97. He was buried in his family's plot at Urtijëi . In 1992, for the centennial of his birth, his native town of Ortisei dedicated a monument that shows him in mountaineer garb while looking at the Langkofel, a mountain he liked to climb. In March 2004, the Museum Gherdëina displayed a collection of Trenker's belongings from a bequest of his family. Arnold Fanck Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974)

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240-490: The film was completed by Sergio Leone . His brother was the composer Giulio Bonnard , who frequently wrote film scores for Mario's productions. This article about an Italian actor or actress is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Luis Trenker Luis Trenker (born Alois Franz Trenker , 4 October 1892 – 12 April 1990) was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist , and bobsledder . Alois Franz Trenker

260-800: The local primary school from 1898 to 1901, and then attended the Josefinum in Bolzano in 1902 and 1903. From 1903 to 1905, he attended the arts and crafts school in Bolzano, where he developed his skills as a woodcarver. In 1912, he entered the Realschule in Innsbruck , where he studied Italian as a foreign language. There he began his middle school studies. During his high school years, he spent his holidays working for mountain guides and ski instructors. After his matriculation examinations in 1912, Trenker studied architecture at

280-503: The rank of Lieutenant. He would write 23 books based on his war experiences, the most important of which were Fort Rocca Alta and Berge in Flammen , the latter of which was made into the 1931 film Mountains on Fire . At the end of the war, Trenker made several unsuccessful attempts to start an architecture business in Bolzano. In 1924 he graduated from the Technical University of Graz , and then worked as an architect in Bolzano, forming

300-505: The regime were proscribed by the Allied military governments. Fanck received no further job offers and went to work as a lumberjack . After the screening of his film The Eternal Dream at the mountain film festival in Trento in 1957, Fanck was once again recognized for his artistic achievements. In order to survive his economic difficulties, however, he was forced to sell the rights to his films to

320-449: The stunts required, and so Trenker assumed the leading role. He gradually assumed more roles on the set, and by 1928 was directing, writing, and starring in his own films. By then, he had abandoned his job as an architect to concentrate on his films. In 1928 he married Hilda von Bleichert, the daughter of a fabrics manufacturer from Leipzig, with whom he had four children. In 1932 Trenker created (with Curtis Bernhardt and Edwin H. Knopf )

340-452: The time as: Assia Noris , Elsa Merlini , Amedeo Nazzari , and Luisa Ferida . Il feroce Saladino (1937) was the most popular of his films of the 1930s. During the war he continued to work. In the post World War II period his films, ranging from comedies to period dramas enjoyed much success. However, today he's no longer well known. One of his last films was The Last Days of Pompeii (1959). An illness made him leave production early, so

360-402: Was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during

380-453: Was accused of fascist opportunism after the war, but the charges were eventually dropped. In the 1950s, he returned to the movie industry, though by 1965 he was making primarily documentary films that focused on the Austrian province of Tyrol and South Tyrol (his homeland), which had become part of Italy. He also returned to writing about the mountains. In 1988 Hilda Trenker von Bleichert died. Luis Trenker died on 13 April 1990 in Bolzano at

400-645: Was born on 4 October 1892 in Urtijëi , Tyrol (German: St. Ulrich in Gröden , Italian : Ortisei ) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in present-day northern Italy). His father Jacob Trenker was a painter from North Tyrol, and his mother Karolina ( née Demetz) was from Urtijëi in Val Gardena . He grew up speaking two languages: German, the language of his father, and Ladin , the language of his mother. He attended

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