S.O.S. Eisberg

S.O.S. Eisberg
German theatrical release poster
Directed by	Arnold Fanck
Written by	Edwin H. Knopf
Screenplay by	Tom Reed
Story by	Arnold Fanck Friedrich Wolf (uncredited)
Produced by	Carl Laemmle Jr. Paul Kohner
Starring	Gustav Diessl Leni Riefenstahl Sepp Rist Gibson Gowland Ernst Udet Rod La Rocque Walter Riml
Cinematography	Richard Angst Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Hermann Haller Andrew Marton
Music by	Paul Dessau
Production company	Deutsche Universal-Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Universal-Film Universal Pictures
Release dates	30 August 1933 (1933-08-30) (Germany) 22 September 1933 (1933-09-22) (USA)
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Germany, US
Languages	German, English

S.O.S. Eisberg (S.O.S. Iceberg) is a 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Roque, and Ernst Udet. Written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf (uncredited in the credits after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 because he was Jewish and a member of the Communist Party of Germany), the film is about an Arctic expedition that goes in search of a party that was lost the previous year. 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. It was filmed simultaneously in German and English, and released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the United States. The film premiered on 30 August 1933 in Berlin.

Among its stars were Leni Riefenstahl, who had just made her directorial debut in The Blue Light (1932). Riefenstahl 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.

Cast

German version

• Gustav Diessl as Dr. Karl Lorenz
• Leni Riefenstahl as Hella
• Sepp Rist as Dr. Johannes Krafft
• Ernst Udet as Ernst Udet
• Gibson Gowland as John Dragan
• Max Holzboer as Dr. Jan Matuschek
• Walter Riml as Fritz Kümmel
• Arthur Grosse
• Tommy Thomas
• Nakinak as Hund

English version

• Rod La Rocque as Dr. Carl Lawrence
• Leni Riefenstahl as Ellen Lawrence
• Sepp Rist as Dr. Johannes Brand
• Ernst Udet as Ernst Udet, flier
• Gibson Gowland as John Dragan
• Max Holzboer as Dr. Jan Matuschek
• Walter Riml as Fritz Kümmel
• Nakinak as Nakinak, the Eskimo dog

Production

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.

See also

• List of German films 1933–1945

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Fanck, Arnold (1933). S.O.S. Eisberg. Mit Dr. Fanck u. Ernst Udet in Groenland. Die Groenland-Expedition des Universal-Films S.O.S. Eisberg. München: F. BruckmannAG OCLC 219890420.
• Riefenstahl, Leni (1933) Kampf in Schee und Eis. Leipzig: Hesse und Bacher Verlag.
• Sorge, Ernst (1935). With Plane, Boat, and Camera in Greenland: An Account of the Universal Dr. Fanck Greenland expedition. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd.
• Riefenstahl, Leni (1995). A Memoir. New York: Picador, ISBN 0-312-11926-7, pp. 104, 108–122, 131, 133–134.

External links

• S.O.S. Eisberg at IMDb (German version)
• S.O.S. Iceberg at IMDb (English version)
• John Gallagher review of 2005 DVD released by Kino International