Overview
A film record of a Soviet expedition to Pamir, not to be confused with Krysha Mira, a different 1928 expedition film also about Pamir, directed by Vladimir Erofeyev, released in USA as Roof Of the World. A pictorial record of the 1928 Russian-German expedition to explore and map an area of the unexplored heart of the Pamirs. During the expedition, three German researchers (E. Allwein, E. Schneider and Karl Wien) made the first attempt to reach the highest point of the Trans-Alai Range, which at that time had the name of the Kaufman Peak (today, Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina). They started climbing upstream of the Saukdara river and continued climbing along the Greater Saukdara Glacier towards the Krilenko Pass at 5820 m. On September 25, 1928 they started climbing from the saddle along the NE Ridge and at 15.30 they made the first ascent of Lenin Peak at an altitude of 7127 m.
Production
Prometheus-Film-Verleih · Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast & Characters
Eugene Allwein
Self
Erwin Schneider
Self
Karl Wien
Self
Willi Rickmer Rickmers
Self
Nikolay Gorbunov
Self
Dmitrii Ivanovich Zcherbakov
Self
Yelena Rosmirovich
Self
Hans Biersack
Self
Franz Kohlhaupt
Self
Alexander Nikolayevich Labunzov
Self
Richard Finsterwalder
Self
I. G. Dorofeyev
Self
Directors & Crew
Vladimir Shnejderov
Director
Vladimir Yerofeyev
Director
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