HIMALAYA - MENSCHEN, MYTHEN, STÜRZENDE BERGE
HIMALAYA - MENSCHEN, MYTHEN, STÜRZENDE BERGE
FRANZ HERZOG
Austria / 1997 / 33'
HIMALAYA - MENSCHEN, MYTHEN, STÜRZENDE BERGE
FRANZ HERZOG
Austria / 1997 / 33'

The film shows the primitive life of the Himalayan mountain populations, unchanged for a thousand years. Landslides are a problem affecting all the settlements and people in the Himalayas. In the village of Dharbang in the Dhaulagiri area a landslide buried hundred of people in their homes. The survivors speak in this film. Austrian geologists have studied the world’s largest landslide in the Nepalese Himalayas and have found layers of rock melted due to the beat produced by the fall. To conclude, there is a pilgrimage of Hindus and Buddhists to the Muktinath shrine near the Tibetan border, enabling us to understand the mysterious relationship between science and mythology.

Director

FRANZ HERZOG

Born in 1949. He is a a director, cameraman, photographer and biologist and professor of Didactis of the Information at the Faculty of Didactis of the Information and Scientific Film Production at the University of Salzburg. He is the manager of the Film Production House Salzburg Science Film, and has produced several educational scientific films. He has travelled a lot and carried out several expeditions to the mountains and different wildlife enviroments all over the world. In 2004 he participated in the 52° edition of the Trento Film Festival with the film “Tanz der Sinne”.