This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a German military cinematographer of the 1st mining division, who participated in the legendary ascent of Elbrus on the night of August 21, 1942. From the beginning of the Second World War and the last international winter sports week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen follows the invasion of the German troops into the Soviet Union: Dnieper, Zaporozhy, Kharkov, Rostov-on-Don, Nogaean Steppe, Caucasus – fighting at 50 degrees below zero, military expedition into the world of ice and snow; – ascent of mountain arrows and subsequent hoisting of flags on the Elbrus at an altitude of 5,633 meters.
A Company of Heroes
Gino: A Child of War
The Death of Hitler: The Story of a State Secret
U-505: Extend the Experience
Die Bewältigung: Oradour
Churchill: When Britain Said No
George Marshall and the American Century
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Dead Nation
Letters from the Blitz
Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council
The Auschwitz Trial
