Suddenly, the break up of the ice leaves their sleds of food supplies tumbling into a ravine. They find a hut Wegener occupied and a note from Lorenz saying that he is trying to reach an native village. 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.Įarly one morning, Lorenz sets out on his own. 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).Īfter 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. Lawrence's team consists of two scientists, Dr. Carl Lorenz ( Gustav Diessl), about to recreate famed explorer Wegener's ill-fated expedition. Īt a banquet at the International Society for Arctic Research, the members toast scientist Dr. Ernst Udet, a former German ace in the First World War, in a cameo performance, flew in both versions. Eisberg, and with Gibson Gowland and Rod La Rocque in the English version, S.O.S. Riefenstahl, in her last film as an actress, co-starred with Gustav Diessl and Ernst Udet in the German version S.O.S. Eisberg were Leni Riefenstahl, who had just made her directorial debut in The Blue Light (1932). Two members of the ill-fated Wegener expedition served as technical consultants to Universal. Eisberg follows the account of the real-life Alfred Lothar Wegener polar expedition of 1929-30. The film was written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf. Iceberg and Iceland) 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.

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