Dead Mountaineer's Hotel

Director: Grigori Kromanov

1979 / 84min / DCP

After receiving an anonymous call coming from the Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, police inspector Peter Glebsky (Uldis Pūcītis) heads to the remote Alpine ski resort and, after an avalanche cuts it off from the world, finds himself having to contend with a highly unusual potpourri of guests and a series of inexplicable occurrences that defy his attempts at rational explanation. Based on a novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who together wrote the screenplay, Kromanov’s richly atmospheric amalgam of whodunit and science fiction is a film unlike any other, with good reason among the most treasured in the annals of Estonian cinema.

Distributor: AGFA

Newly restored in 4K by Deaf Crocodile in collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute and Film Archive.

Part of Hotel Europa