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Balance

Jun 1, 2012

0h 11m

★ 6.0

Overview

Friends Henderson and Morris are climbing a mountain, connected by a rope. They take an easy passage, but a loss of oversight leads to Henderson's fall. Morris cannot prevent falling too. Seconds later he finds himself hanging above an abyss, realizing the balance is unstable.

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Deepeei Film Productions

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Henderson

Cas Jansen

Morris

Waldemar Torenstra

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8.0

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7.2

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10.0

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8.5

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No overview available.

6.6

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Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

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0.0

Tenzing

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A biopic of Tenzing Norgay, the legendary Nepalese-Indian mountaineer who summited Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, becoming one of the first men to stand on the top of the world.

6.6

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6.9

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8.5

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6.5

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6.6

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1.0

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No overview available.

10.0

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5.6

Five Days One Summer

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10.0

Les Louves

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No overview available.

6.2

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

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In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

10.0

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