Films by Denis Ducroz

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