30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

On the snowy slopes of the Engadin Valley the handsome instructor, Toni Anewater, teaches foreign tourists, charmed by his presence, to ski. To increase winter reservations, the director of a hotel secretly sends gallant letters to the female guests, with the signature and photo of the instructor. The plan succeeds and the skiers return and sign up en masse for his course, during which the unsuspecting instructor is witness to jealousy and hostilities. Trenker chooses the language of comedy to show its lighter side and give sample space to the radiant views of the Alps where the main protagonist is the snow.

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  Luis Trenker

  Luis Trenker (1892-1990) was a South Tyrolean director, writer, and mountaineer born in Ortisei, and a Ladin native speaker. He began in cinema as an actor in the 1920s, and then became a director, protagonist, and author of his own films, which often brought stories of mountain people to the screen, especially his own mountains. He was forbidden to work in film during the Nazi period, as he refused to submit to the regime. He was awarded a prize in Venice in 1936 for Der Kaiser von Kalifornien. He achieved success with Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin (1938).