{"id":423505,"date":"2026-08-04T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:18:10","slug":"dead-mountaineers-hotel-4k-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423505\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dead Mountaineer&#8217;s Hotel&#8217; (4K Restoration)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"'Dead Mountaineer's Hotel'\" width=\"254\" height=\"381\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785842290_956_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deaf Crocodile<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dead Mountaineer&#8217;s Hotel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                                            Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>                                            Digital Gym Cinema\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>                                            $13 Regular | $11 Students &amp; Seniors | $9 Members\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>DEAD MOUNTAINEER\u2019S HOTEL (\u201cHUKKUNUD ALPINISTI\u201d HOTEL) \u2013 1979, Tallinnfilm, 84 min. &#8220;I was on call to drive to a mountain hotel. The hotel&#8217;s name was The Dead Mountaineer,&#8221; says police inspector Peter Glebsky (Uldis P\u016bc\u012btis) at the beginning of Estonian director Grigori Kromanov\u2019s dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Based on a novel by famed Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (STALKER, HARD TO BE A GOD), the hall-of-mirrors plot follows Glebsky as he\u2019s trapped by avalanche in the ski lodge with a rogues\u2019 gallery of weird suspects:  tubercular gangster Hinckus (Mikk Mikiver), creepy hotel owner Snewahr (J\u00fcri J\u00e4rvet, KING LEAR), a wall-climbing physicist (Lembit Peterson), a louche, wig-wearing beauty out of a Bryan Ferry song (Irena Kriauzaite) \u2013 oh, and the Dead Mountaineer\u2019s faithful St. Bernard. The interior of the hotel (brilliantly art directed by T\u00f5nu Virve and Priit Vaher, and photographed by J\u00fcri Sillart) is straight out of a Dario Argento or Sergio Martino thriller:  all chrome-and-marble with Space Age modern designs, drenched in champagne and feather boas.  Featuring a stellar electronica \/ prog score by composer Sven Gr\u00fcnberg, the film combines an eerie THE SHINING-like mountain locale with speculative sci-fi straight out of Chariots of the Gods. \u201cThis is the end of the road. The only way is back,\u201d as the hotel owner cryptically smiles.  <\/p>\n<p>Newly restored in 4K by Deaf Crocodile in collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute and Film Archive.  In Estonian with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Gym Cinema on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/digitalgymsandiego\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Facebook<\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/digitalgymsd\/?hl=en\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Event Supported By<\/p>\n<p>Media Arts Center San Diego<\/p>\n<p>(619) 230-1938<\/p>\n<p>kristian@mediaartscenter.org<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deaf Crocodile &#8216;Dead Mountaineer&#8217;s Hotel&#8217; Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM Digital Gym Cinema $13 Regular |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-423505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}