Odworot

40th Anniversary Retrospective: From the Vault Program
Polish mountaineers are mostly known for their hard-headed drive, grit and refusal to turn around — even when it costs them their lives. Which why this black-and-white 1968 film is both surprising and compelling. Odworot means “retreat” in Polish, and that’s what this film chronicles — one climber’s desperate and harrowing search for help after his partner’s accident forces him to come back down the mountain.