The Dyatlov Pass Incident
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Short description
Five American college students travel to the Ural Mountains in 2012 to investigate one of the twentieth century's most enduring mysteries. In 1959, nine experienced Soviet skiers led by Igor Dyatlov died under unexplained circumstances on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl, their tent cut open from the inside and their bodies showing injuries with no external cause. Funded by a grant, the students set out to retrace the group's route and document what really happened. Camping at the same site, they find their equipment failing and their contact with the outside world cut off as increasingly strange events close in around them.
The film is directed by Renny Harlin, the seventeenth of the twenty-eight features he has made in chronological order, following 5 Days of War and preceding The Legend of Hercules. Vikram Weet wrote the screenplay, and Harlin produced alongside Kia Jam and Sergey Bespalov. The cast includes Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, Luke Albright, Ryan Hawley, Gemma Atkinson and Nikolay Butenin, with twenty credited cast members and 103 credited crew.
Released in 2013, the film is a Russian, British and American co-production running 100 minutes. It took about 5 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.7 out of 10 from roughly 30,000 votes, and on TMDB 6 out of 10 from around 761 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 out of 10 from 22 reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The official conclusion stated that the tragedy occurred due to a "force of nature that the tourists were unable to overcome." Later, several versions of what happened emerged – from criminal and conspiratorial to mystical and paranormal. Accusations were leveled at wild animals, escaped convicts from nearby colonies, soldiers who mistook the tourists for escapees, local Mansi people for whom Kholat Syakhl has ritual significance, the military allegedly testing new secret weapons in the remote area, foreign intelligence agents, and even alien visitors.
- The film was not shot in the Ural Mountains, but in the Khibiny Mountains. There, snowy slopes can be filmed even at positive temperatures. The towns of Ivdel and Vizhay, which the characters pass through on their way, were filmed in Kirovsk – the “capital” of the Khibiny.
- On January 23, 1959, a group of nine experienced ski tourists led by Igor Dyatlov, a polytechnic institute student, set out on a skiing trip through the mountains. On February 1, a week later, the group stopped on the slope of Kholat Syakhl mountain (translated from Mansi as the Mountain of the Dead), near an unnamed pass that later became known as the Dyatlov Pass. They were expected to make contact by February 12, but they never appeared at the final destination of their route.
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