Documentary History
A fascinating chronology of 100 years of mountain film history in the Alps. This documentary focuses primarily on films shot on the Matterhorn, the Eiger, and the Grandes Jorasses, considered until the 1930s as the "last problems of the Alps," and shows the evolution of mountain filmmaking through numerous excerpts from documentaries and feature films – notably on the Matterhorn in 1901. The genre, appropriated as a means of mass exaltation by "fascist" regimes during the Second World War, was reinvented in the 1950s by Gaston Rebuffat, Marcel Ichac, and Lionel Terray in the Mont Blanc massif, avant-garde figures of French mountain cinema, who reintroduced, beyond performance, the values ​​of the mountains – and in color – poetry, humor, and sharing among people from all walks of life.
Directed by
Hans-Jürgen Panitz, Matthias Fanck
Roger Moore
Self (archive footage)
Benno Fürmann
Self (archive footage)
Ulrich Tukur
Self (archive footage)
Simon Schwarz
Self (archive footage)
Georg Friedrich
Self (archive footage)
Florian Lukas
Self (archive footage)
Johanna Wokalek
Self (archive footage)
Luis Trenker
Self (archive footage)
Catherine Destivelle
Self
Alexander Huber
Self
Sepp Rist
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Huber
Self (archive footage)
Maurice Baquet
Self (archive footage)
Patrick Berhault
Self (archive footage)
Gaston Rébuffat
Self (archive footage)
Kurt Diemberger
Self
Haroun Tazieff
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Boivin
Self (archive footage)
Matthias Fanck
Self
Eddie Birch
Self (archive footage)
Brian Molyneux
Self (archive footage)

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