Walter Riml

Camera

September 23, 1905 — June 21, 1994

Innsbruck, Austria

6 movies

Biography

Walter Riml is the photographer of the famous portrait of Leni Riefenstahl as "Junta" in her first film "The Blue Light", working there also as second cameraman. Living in Berlin since the early 30s until the end of the war, he was cameraman for Arnold Fanck, the legendary founder of the German Berg Film, worked as an actor in different ski comedies like "The White Flame", was filming in Greenland ( "SOS Iceberg") and Japan (Die Tochter des Samurai). After World War II he made movies in Europe, ...

🎬 Walter Riml's Filmography

6 movies sorted by popularity

6.4

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier.

S.O.S. Iceberg

1933

5.6

The exploits of village girl Hannes and her attempts to master skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local expert.

The White Ecstasy

1931

7.8

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.

The Eternal Dream

1934

7.0

Film by Andrew Marton.

North Pole - Ahoy!

1934

5.3

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language version of S.O.S. Eisberg.)

S.O.S. Iceberg

1933

10.0

A romantic comedy mostly set on skis: a girl tries to show her boyfriend that she is just as good at winter sports, and gets help from two other boys.

Slalom

1932