Secret in the Mountain Ein Dorf wehrt sich
Movie Poster
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Sepp Rottenbacher
Fritz Karl
Elsa Mitterjäger
Brigitte Hobmeier
Franz Mitterjäger
Harald Windisch
Leni Mitterjäger
Maresi Riegner
Johann Dörfler
Gerhard Liebmann
Xaver Pröttl
Norman Hacker
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Oliver Masucci
Direktor Waldstetter
Francis Fulton-Smith
Secret in the Mountain is a 2019 Austro-German movie directed by Gabriela Zerhau. Nazi-looted art is stored in the salt mine of the village of Altaussee. Strictly guarded by soldiers, the inhabitants drag paintings into the tunnel. Among them Sepp, who stays out of everything, and his friend Franz, who hides deserters in the mountains with his wife Elsa. Before the Allies approach, Gauleiter Eigruber wants to have the mine blown up. The works of art would be lost, the mine destroyed, but the village rebels.
The 2014 American movie The Monuments Men directed by George Clooney includes the rescue mission from another perspective.
The following weapons were used in the film Secret in the Mountain :
Handguns
Walther P38
German soldiers and Paul Storz (Markus Freistätter ) have Walther P38 pistols.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walther P38 with black grips - 9x19mm
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A German soldier prevents the curious miners from coming closer.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Paul Storz points his Walther at Sepp Rottenbacher.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing During the standoff with the armed miners, he brandishes his pistol.
Tokarev TT-33
The Austrian resistance group acquires some Tokarev TT-33 pistols, that are used by Karl Dörfler (Aaron Friesz ), Elsa Mitterjäger (Brigitte Hobmeier ), and Lois Pliesinger (Adrian Spielbauer ).
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing After knowing who is standing in front of him, he gives her a hug.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The grip with the Soviet star is seen as Elsa puts it in her bag.
Luger P08
Gestapomann Sick (Rainer Wöss ) is seen threatening Elsa Mitterjäger with a Luger P08 . Later on, Elsa puts a Luger in a bag.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elsa gets an unlucky point of view of Sick's Luger.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Luger taken by Elsa in the bag.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Desperate by the approaching Americans, an NSDAP offical buries his Luger alongside an Adolf Hitler portrait.
Browning Hi-Power
At the climax, a German officer draws a Browning Hi-Power .
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Revolvers
Rast & Gasser 1898
A Rast & Gasser 1898 is seen lying on Elsa's table which she puts off-screen in her bag.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view of the barrel to the right.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A slightly different view of the Rast & Gasser.
Velo-Dog
The resistance weapons contain what appears to be a Velo-Dog revolver.
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Submachine Guns
MP40
MP40s are used by some German Wehrmacht and SS soldiers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maschinenpistole 40 - 9x19mm Parabellum
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A sentry at the property of Alfred Schädler (George Lenz ) with his MP40.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing An SS soldier lowers his SMG during the meeting of Seep and SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Oliver Masucci ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another SS man readies his MP.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the handguard of the same submachine gun.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Surprised by Austrian resistance members, an SS soldier changes his target.
Rifles
Karabiner 98k
The majority of German soldiers including Oberfeldwebel Rittig (Harry Lampl ) carry Karabiner 98ks .
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers of Gauleiter August Eigruber (Philipp Hochmair ) getting in a car carry Kar98ks.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two SS soldiers hold their carabiners while driving in a VW Kübelwagen .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Four speechless soldiers watch the villagers at a funeral march.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A slung Kar98k of a guard of the salt mine during the night.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sepp gets threanted by one sentry of Schädler.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The salt mine guards confront the miners. Note the straight bolt-handle on the left carabiner.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closer view of the turned bolt.
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Unknown Rifles
Austrian resistance fighters can be seen with unknown rifles that appear to be some types of hunting and sporting variants.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Possible Mannlicher-Schönauer rifles.
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M1 Carbine
Various US Army soldiers have M1 Carbines equipped with late-war bayonet lugs.
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M1 Garand
The M1 Garand is also carried by some American soldiers.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Eva Schädler (Verena Altenberger ) eyes the incoming GIs.
Machine Guns
Browning M2HB
A Browning M2HB is seen mounted on an American Willys MB jeep at the end.
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Other
Double Barreled Shotgun
Some of the resistance fighters are seen with 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotguns .
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