In film, the 1953 documentary film "Nanga Parbat 1953" was filmed and directed by cinematographer Hans Ertl, who participated in the expedition and climbed to camp 5 (6500m). "Nanga Parbat" is a movie by Joseph Vilsmaier about the 1970 expedition of brothers Günther Messner and Reinhold Messner. Donald Shebib's 1986 film "The Climb" covers the story of Hermann Buhl making the first ascent. Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet opens with Heinrich Harrer's obsession to climb Nanga Parbat at the beginning of World War II.