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Mountain Man

1934 · 90 min

A solemn old-world mountain drama of pride and peril, with stark alpine vistas and a quiet, deliberate pull toward the summit.

Directed by
René Le Hénaff, Serge de Poligny
Genres
Drama
Starring
Stephan Bloetzer, Werner Düby, Gustav Diessl
Overview
The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.

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Directed by
René Le Hénaff, Serge de Poligny
Genres
Drama
Starring
Stephan Bloetzer, Werner Düby, Gustav Diessl
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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • class
    • survival
    • ambition
    • family
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
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    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
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    Action4
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance2
    Tension5
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    René Le Hénaff, Serge de Poligny
    Written by
    Anton Kutter
    Starring
    Stephan Bloetzer, Werner Düby, Gustav Diessl, Léon Belières, Simone Bourday, Jean Toulout, Beni Führer, Lucien Dayle
    Music
    Hilmar Georgi, Jacques Belasco
    Runtime
    90 min
    Country
    Germany, Switzerland
    Languages
    French

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