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Arnold Fanck was born on 6 March, 1889 in Frankenthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire, is a German film director. Discover Arnold Fanck's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Film director
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March, 1889
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Frankenthal, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Date of death 28 September, 1974
Died Place Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
Nationality Germany

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His wife is Ute Dietrich (m. 1972–1974), Elisabeth Kind (m. 1934–1934)

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1889

Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre.

Arnold Fanck was born on 6 March 1889 in Frankenthal, Germany.

1920

Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern, Bernhard Villinger and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920.

Fanck, who held a PhD in geology, directed mountain films, sports films and ski films.

He was assisted by Sepp Allgeier, a cameraman who later worked with Leni Riefenstahl, and worked mostly in the Alps in locations such as the Engadine, Zermatt and the Arlberg and on mountains such as Mont Blanc and Piz Palü.

1926

He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933).

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.

His most popular and successful films of the period between the wars include The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), The White Ecstasy (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933)—all starring Leni Riefenstahl.

During the Nazi regime, Fanck got in trouble with propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, since he refused to cooperate — apparently because of the necessity of joining the party.

1934

In 1934, he also began working on his film, The Eternal Dream, which not only starred a French hero in French mountains, but also had a Jewish producer, Gregor Rabinovitch.

1936

This conflict brought Fanck into economic difficulties, from which he was only able to escape by accepting a contract from the Japanese ministry of culture in 1936.

With The Daughter of the Samurai and other "culture films", Fanck decided to cooperate with the Nazi regime.

1938

Soon afterwards, he produced A German Robinson Crusoe (1938/40) a propaganda film for Bavaria Filmkunst.

1940

Arnold Fanck joined the NSDAP in April 1940.

1944

In 1944 he made a documentary about the sculptor Arno Breker called Arno Breker – Harte Zeit, starke Kunst.

After World War II, Fanck's main films made during the regime were proscribed by the Allied military governments.

Fanck received no further job offers and went to work as a lumberjack.

1957

After the screening of his film The Eternal Dream at the mountain film festival in Trento in 1957, Fanck was once again recognized for his artistic achievements.

In order to survive his economic difficulties, however, he was forced to sell the rights to his films to a friend, until TV broadcasts improved his situation.

1974

Fanck died on 28 September 1974 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, at the age of 85.

He is buried in the Hauptfriedhof in Freiburg.

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