VERY BEAUTIFUL, BIG-SIZE, ORIGINAL, VINTAGE PRESS PRINT from 1933 (!), starring Leni Riefenstahl in: "S.O.S. Eisberg" (1933). The print is bodly signed in ink, most probably in the year the film came out (=VINTAGE SIGNATURE) by the actrice at the bottom right corner of the front. The print comes with two (printed) "Deutsche Universal Films" signs on the front (bottom left and bottom right) and with one original stamp "Deutsche Prüfstelle" at bottom left corner of the front. The print is originally stamped on the back, in red: "Univeral-Dr. Fanck-Grönland-Expeditionsfilm S.O.S. Eisberg...Berlin" (see picture). Arnold Fanck was a famous German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. Arnold Fanck wrote the role of the dancer in "Der heilige Berg" ("The Holy Mountain", 1926) for Leni Riefenstahl. She learned mountaineering and skiing and also played leading roles in the following Arnold Fanck films: "Der große Sprung" (1927), "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü" ("The White Hell of Pitz Palu", 1929), "Stürme über dem Montblanc" ("Storm over Mont Blanc", 1930), "Der weiße Rausch" (1931) and "S.O.S. Eisberg" (1933). Leni Riefenstahl described Arnold Fanck's work as artistic and avant-garde and later adapted his techniques and camera angles, developed by Fanck's Freiburg School in principle and in detail as a film director. Arnold Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger, and Walter Riml. This is an exclusive photobook auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com) with some of the best photobooks of the last 100 years. Most of the photobooks are coming from the high-standard collection of a well-known German photographer. So I am very happy to present you such a wonderful selection so early in the year. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY LOTS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Print: 235 x 300 mm. Condition: Well-preserved, fresh, with little trace of use (especially at the corners), but with no tears, with no missing parts, with no bigger creases or other remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition. SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this VINTAGE PRESS PRINT - signed by Leni Riefenstahl, the actrice, later famous artist and film director, most probably in the year the film came out (= VINTAGE SIGNATURE), I am offering also the book "Ein Kampf mit dem Berge" in this auction with the best photos by Arnold Fanck of 12-year work, also with a portrait by Leni Riefenstahl. Arnold Fanck is famous for many great photobooks like "Wunder des Schneeschuhs" (1925, also offered in this auction) or "Das Bilderbuch des Skikäufers" (1932), which are mentioned here: Manfred Heiting, Roland Jäger, Autopsie, Band 2, page 284 Leni Riefenstahl became later famous through her own films and photobooks like: "Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf" "S.O.S. Eisberg is a 1933 German-US pre-Code drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Rocque, and Ernst Udet. The film was written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf. S.O.S. Eisberg follows the account of the real-life Alfred Lothar Wegener polar expedition of 1929-30. Fritz Loewe and Ernst Sorge, two members of the ill-fated Wegener Expedition served as technical consultants to Universal. Among the stars in S.O.S. Eisberg were Leni Riefenstahl, who had just made her directorial debut in The Blue Light (1932). Riefenstahl, in her last film as an actress, co-starred with Gustav Diessl and Ernst Udet in the German version S.O.S. Eisberg, and with Gibson Gowland and Rod La Rocque in the English version, S.O.S. Iceberg. Ernst Udet, a former German ace in the First World War, in a cameo performance, flew in both versions. At a banquet at the International Society for Arctic Research, the members toast scientist Dr. Carl Lorenz (Gustav Diessl), about to recreate famed explorer Wegener's ill-fated expedition. Lawrence's team consists of two scientists, Dr. Johannes Brand (Sepp Rist) and Dr. Jan Matushek (Max Holzboer), his friend, Fritz Kuemmel (Walter Riml), their financial backer, John Dragan (Walter Riml), and their pilot to the Arctic, Lorenz's wife Hella (Leni Riefenstahl). After Hella drops them at their base camp, the men begin their long trek to recover Wegener's records and prove his theories on ice floes. As the weeks pass, Brand and the others fear they will not survive when the ice breaks up, but Lorenz scoffs and refuses to wait until winter. Early one morning, Lorenz sets out on his own. His companions fear he is lost. They find a hut Wegener occupied and a note from Lorenz saying that he is trying to reach a native village. Suddenly, the break up of the ice leaves their sleds of food supplies tumbling into a ravine. The rescuers take refuge on a huge iceberg where they discover that Lorenz is there, dazed and uncommunicative. Brand begins sending out an S.O.S. on his wireless and Hella immediately leaves to search for her husband. Disaster strikes, with Dragan going mad, and as Kümmel fights with him to prevent their dog, Nakinak, from being killed, Kümmel falls to his death. When Hella finds the survivors, she misjudges her landing and crashes but is able to swim to the iceberg. Brand seeing they are drifting out to sea, dives into the water, and is picked up by another pilot (Ernst Udet) following Hella's flight path. The pilot flies Brand to the nearby Inuit village. Matushek sees two polar bears fighting over a seal but is killed when he tries to spear the bears. Dragan then attacks Hella, but by then her husband has come to his senses, and she is saved. The iceberg begins to come apart, throwing Dragan into the sea. Lorenz, Hella and Nakinak are rescued by the Inuit. The three survivors later are aboard a ship bound for home, but Lorenz is haunted by the deaths incurred in his misguided expedition. Under the working title Iceland, S.O.S. Eisberg was filmed on location in Umanak, on the west coast of Greenland, in Iceland, and in the Bernina Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland.[6] Prior to principal photography, pre-production development and location shooting took a year. The film's opening credits stated that it was produced "under the auspices of the Danish government and under the protectorate of the renowned polar explorer Knud Rasmussen. A total of 38 men and women, three polar bears and two sea lions of the Hagenbeck circus making up the crew of the S.O.S. Eisberg boarded the Borodino at the end of June 1932. Filming was especially arduous with "Leni Riefenstahl, whose life he (Fanck) had often put in danger", after her repeated swimming in frigid waters, had to leave the production, "before the others, to be hospitalized in Copenhagen". Modern sources have identified real dangers that occurred in the filming of S.O.S. Eisberg: "... none of the film's actors had doubles" and actors including Riefenstahl endured extreme cold and performed dangerous stunts. "... Udet nearly lost his life when his plane's engine lost power and crashed at the base of an iceberg. Udet was rescued by the Inuit, but minutes later, the iceberg which was supporting some of the crew crumbled to bits, casting men and equipment into the water below. The production unit ship anchored nearby was so shaken by the event that it nearly capsized, throwing people on board the deck into the water. All were rescued, but considerable sound equipment was destroyed." Although "conceived and started by Germans", S.O.S. Eisberg was "turned over to Universal when the originators were unable to carry it through." Universal Studios made the decision to film simultaneously in German and English. Released by Universal Studios in both countries, with the German edition slightly longer with 10 additional minutes, the English version was retitled, S.O.S. Iceberg and released in the United StaTES." (Wikipedia.com)