Films by Andreas Nickel

Germany 2012, 104 min
by Andreas Nickel

Feature documentary about mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner and how he became what he is. This film is as much about his personality as it is about his extraordinary exploits - the psychogram of a controversial mountaineer. He has left his marks on modern alpinism like nobody else and stands for the transgression of formerly accepted limits, also intellectually. Shot on original locations, this film tells the universal theme of overcoming fear, coping with failure and surmounting obstacles. C

Germany 2008
by Andreas Nickel, Jürgen Czwienk

Norman Dyhrenfurth, a sprightly ninety year old, tells for thefirst time the fascinating history of his parents role in the raceto TO THE THIRD POLE, the highest mountains on earth. Two expeditions during the 1930s which stand up to their Nazirivals, - state-sponsored - beats them in setting world climbingrecords. In doing so, Guenter and Hettie Dyhrenfurth take the firstmoving pictures in high altitude during their Himalaya expeditions.Norman Dyhrenfurth himself put the first Americans on the t