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Fanck film expedition

Collection - Material

The German filmmaker Arnold Fanck (1889-1974) was known across Germany for his mountain films from the 1920s (with Luis Trenker). On a trip to Chile in 1934 he shot the Nazi propaganda film “Ein Robinson”, which was not completed until 1940.

Material:

  • 1 case (85 black-and-white photographs of a trip to Chile, thought to be from Fanck’s trip)

Keywords: Chile, film history, history of photography, travelogues