Published by München, ca., ., 1960
Seller: Werner Engelmann, Lahr, BW, Germany
Abb., 2 Bl. Orig. Broschur, 26 x 18 cm kl. Läsuren.
8°, 1 Doppelblatt. ZUSTAND 1.
Language: German
Published by [Berlin: VEB Progress-Film Vertrieb, n.d. [?1957]., 1957
Seller: Meridian Rare Books ABA PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 62.26
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A film programme, 4to. 4pp., photo. illust. to entire upper cover and 10 other photo. illusts., information on the film and on the expedition to central pages; marginal browning, minor marginal tears. Im Schatten des Karakorum (In the Shadow of the Karakorum) recorded the 1954 German-Austrian Himalaya-Karakorum Expedition, led by Mathias Rebitsch. Subtitled 'Durch das wilde Land des Hunza auf die Gipfel der Batura' (Through the wild Hunza land to the peaks of the Batura), the film used footage by Eugen Schuhmacher and Martin Schließler, with music by Erich Bender; it won an award at the 1955 Berlinale. Anderl Heckmayer was on the expedition, as was Karl Heckler, who died during it and to whose memory the film is dedicated.