Luis Trenker – ein Mann und seine Legenden
Karin Duregger, 2015Luis Trenker is a myth. There is hardly anyone else who had a greater influence on the genre of mountain films. And hardly anyone embodied the character of a mountaineer better than he did. This documentary retraces the ups and downs of a long journey through the life of a man caught between the awkward tension between Hitler and Mussolini, between conformity and resistance, between taste of the time and film art. How close did he really get to NS and fascism? Or was his manoeuvring and tactics just a strategy to establish his own image as a legend and to invent his own story from the very beginning? Looking for answers, this TV documentary, which ties in with the feature film Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahheit (Luis Trenker - Truth, A Balancing Act), follows Luis Trenker and delves into his times, linking the events from then with today's experts' opinion and also testimonials from his descendants.