''The Beckoning Silence'' is a 2007 British television film that follows and retraces the

1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster In July 1936, five climbers died while attempting to ascend the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. Background After a deadly and unsuccessful German attempt in 1935, ten climbers from Austria and Germany travelled to the still-un ...

where five climbers perished while attempting to scale the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. The film features climber Joe Simpson, whose book of the same name inspired the film. In 2008 it won an

International Emmy Award The International Emmy Awards, or International Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based International Academy of Television Arts and Sci ...

Cast

* Andreas Abegglen as

Willy Angerer Willy Angerer (c. 1905 – 21 July 1936) was an Austrian mountaineer. He was one of four mountaineers who died in the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster, along with Toni Kurz, Andreas Hinterstoisser and Eduard Rainer. At thirty-one Angerer wa ...

* as

Andreas Hinterstoisser Andreas Hinterstoisser (3 October 1914 – 21 July 1936) was a German mountain climber active in the 1930s. He died during an attempt to climb the Eiger north face with his partner Toni Kurz. A section of the north face was later named the "Hinter ...

* Cyrille Berthod as Edi Rainer * as Toni Kurz * Joe Simpson as himself *

Steven Mackintosh Steven Mackintosh (born 30 April 1967) is an English actor and narrator. He is perhaps best known for his role as Andreas Tanis in the action horror films '' Underworld: Evolution'' (2006) and '' Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'' (2009). Mack ...

as the narrator

References

External links

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The Beckoning Silence - Extras: The Making of
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