The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned the highest mountaintops of the world for more than 20 years. They not only set down new trails, but new rules of behavior. They set themselves apart with an original style of climbing, endurance, conscientiousness about the overall well-being of the team - and solidarity.
05-21-2011
1h 11m
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Production:
IAM
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Country:
PL
Filming:
PL
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Jerzy Kukuczka
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka, nicknamed "Jurek", born on March 24, 1948 in Katowice, Poland and died on October 24, 1989 while attempting to climb the south face of Lhotse, is a Polish mountaineer and Himalayan climber.
He is considered one of the greatest Himalayan climbers of all time. He was the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb the fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters. An iconic climber of an extraordinary generation of Polish climbers (including Wanda Rutkiewicz, Krzysztof Wielicki, Wojciech Kurtyka, Andrzej Czok, Artur Hajzer, Ryszard Pawłowski etc.) his Himalayan exploits are first-rate: ten new routes out of the fourteen 8,000ers climbed, four winter ascents (including three firsts), a traverse, a solo, several ascents in alpine style. His record is even more impressive if we take into account the fact that Jerzy Kukuczka lived in communist Poland and could not benefit from the advanced training techniques and equipment available to Western climbers.
The Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti celebrates in his book3 Kukuczka's conquests as epic deeds and underlines the fact that, unlike Reinhold Messner, Kukuczka managed to climb the fourteen 8,000ers always choosing difficult or new routes and with extreme (also economic) conditions.
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Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner, born September 17, 1944 in Bressanone/Brixen in South Tyrol, is a German-speaking Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century. A great defender of the alpine style and destroyer of the expedition style, he is notably known for having made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen supply with Peter Habeler, in May 1978, and was the first to have climbed the fourteen peaks more 8,000 meters in 1986.
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer, theatre and opera director.
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