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For more than 10 years, former professional skier Richard Schabl has been working on producing his movie, "please remember me ” The film, shot in both Austria and Breckenridge, showcases the true story of the Kaprun disaster in Austria, which killed more than 150 people after a fire broke out in a train taking skiers through a tunnel to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier on Nov. 11, 2000. For Schabl, who was at the ski resort that day and chose the gondola instead of the train, the film is a way to bring more light to a tragic event in which he lost many friends. Schabl has lived part time in Breckenridge since winning the FIS Freestyle World Cup at Breckenridge Ski Resort at age 23. Growing up in the mountains of Germany, he won three world championships — his last was in France in 1986 — in freestyle skiing, and also invented the one-handed pole flip. He owns a world record for 22 flips in 60 seconds on a ski deck (a revolving carpet).

The multimedia show, created with production company Succes’S IBC, has been in the works for more than 10 years with more than 8.5 million dollars in expenses. The film parts showcase scenery in the Austrian Alps and Rocky Mountains, along with expert skiers and riders in the industry.

Opened in 1974, the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 was a funicular railway in Kaprun, Austria, carrying skiers to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier. The railway, modernized in 1993, had two trains on the track, one that went up while at the same time the other descended, powered by a motorized winch system. The trains did not have engines, fuel tanks or drivers — only an attendant who operated the hydraulic doors. When a fire broke out in the electric fan heater in the unattended attendant cabin at the lower end of one of the trains, there were 167 passengers and one attendant on board. The passengers had no way of contacting the attendant after the train caught fire and halted unexpectedly about 600 yards inside the tunnel. Once the conductor realized what was happening, he tried to open the hydraulically operated doors, but the system pressure loss prevented them from operating. Only 12 people in the rear of the train survived after breaking a window and escaping downwards past the fire and below the smoke. Eventually, the conductor was able to unlock the doors, but the passengers who at that point were still able to flee, went up the tunnel and away from the fire. The tunnel acted like a furnace, bringing oxygen in from the bottom and sent the smoke, heat and fire rapidly upwards, and none survived. The tunnel remains closed today.