ZWISCHEN HIMMEL UND HÖLLE. DAS TENNENGEBIRGE

This film from the serial Bilder einer Landschaft (landscape portraits of a landscape) takes us to a place "between heaven and hell" - The Tennengebirge Massif - a real Alpine gem situated in the Northern calcareous Alps south of Salzburg in Austria. The massif is a huge block of limestone with endless steep slopes on all sides, a huge karstic plateau and the highest amount of caves in the Alps. We get to know the colourful features that make this place quite unique, from the region's culture to its economy, from mountaineering to natural history. We meet lamas that are used as pack animals because the plateau region is a real desert during the summer. In this "Swiss cheese" landscape any water immediately disappears into its many holes (open joints, shafts and caves). We are taken to dizzy heights with top climber Albrecht Precht and enter the world’s biggest ice cave. Jürgen Eichinger and his team have captured spectacular images and moods in this empire of darkness.