Der Heilige Berg (1926) Holy Mountain Fanck Riefenstahl

This is available on youtube, but a work like this requires high quality visuals. The goofy romantic plot can safely be ignored, but the artistic vision is marvelous to behold - they must really have worked hard to achieve such polished photography in 1926.

The scenes of Diotima the dancer doing her pirouettes amongst the rock and ice are justly famous, likewise those of mountaineers exerting themselves in extreme alpine landscapes.

Popular culture seems to have developed a fascination with "bad girls", well here is a chance to see one of the baddest (Leni Riefenstahl) at the peak of her form).