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After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
- Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
Kuba Dyniewicz
- Jan Berbeka
- (as Jakub Dyniewicz)
Joanna Borer
- Teacher
- (as Joanna Borer-Dziegiel)
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No matter the subject - most Polish movies are like that - long silent scenes. Marriage scene - long silent scenes. Thriller to be, showing survival - long silent scenes.
Althought the story is quite simple, is is all messed up and made complicated (it usually is in Polish movies).
Poorly chosen music. Even when orchestral, which is surprising... Years are passing, new creators are coming and Polish movies remain the same.
They are simply boring and hard to watch.
On top of that (but this is a problem only for Polish watchers), again, like in every Polish movie, you can't hear or understand what they are saying. So I turn the volume up and up and up and then music scenes make my walls shake. Each and every time the same.
Althought the story is quite simple, is is all messed up and made complicated (it usually is in Polish movies).
Poorly chosen music. Even when orchestral, which is surprising... Years are passing, new creators are coming and Polish movies remain the same.
They are simply boring and hard to watch.
On top of that (but this is a problem only for Polish watchers), again, like in every Polish movie, you can't hear or understand what they are saying. So I turn the volume up and up and up and then music scenes make my walls shake. Each and every time the same.
The breathtaking mountain climbing shots - especially when they pan out and show you where the climbers are in relation to the size of the mountain - is terrifying - how they get up these sheer ice faces is just amazing. I found most of the film very gripping and my only issue is that the time lag between the first attempt to climb Broad Peak and the second attempt is supposed to be 25 years later. This length of time seems more like a few years as all you see the main character doing is some joinery and giving some school talks etc. Plus he and his wife look no different 25 years later. I had to go and check that it really was 25 years later. Just a quibble though.
Wonder how can such an acclaimed director blow off such a fantastic story. We get attechet to absolutely no characters in the films. The story just passes by quickly, with no emotions nor suspense. Dialogues are rare, fragmented and have no relevance to the story. There are neither any questions nor answers in this film. Even the clibmbing scene es have no sense. We don know who is Berbeka, why he is climbing and what is it all about. His wife is completely in a shadow with no meaningful dialogues between them. There was such a great opportunity in this movie. Unfortunately we cannot experience it. I am soooo disappointed.
A "lite" version of the ascent of Broad Peak by Polish high altitude mountaineer Maciej Berbeka. The story is not too bad, but predictable. Similar movies like EVEREST are more gripping with better editing.
That said, this movie holds its place based on true events. It's so important in this sport to know your limits, to know when to let go and to never let ego take control.
That said, this movie holds its place based on true events. It's so important in this sport to know your limits, to know when to let go and to never let ego take control.
This is a typical film that should not have been made. The story that may have happened is not interesting for a moment. The scenes are sloppily tied together where there is hardly a story to discover. Apart from the fact that I do not understand mountain climbers, this is the worst film I have ever seen about the subject. The story is incoherent and the actors do not seem to be interested. I watched it for half an hour and then I knew, not worth it. It remains a shame that there are film makers who are not able to film this kind of subject better. In a word, a soporific, sloppy work, a waste of my time.
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- قمّة برود بيك
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- K2, Karakoram Mountain Range, Pakistan(location)
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- 1h 41m(101 min)
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