
The Fight for the Matterhorn
Drama
Lenguage:117 min
Duration:de
Release date:Nov 27, 1928
Calificacion:9.0
Description:
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
Cast

Luis TrenkerJean-Antoine Carrel

Marcella AlbaniFelicitas, Wife of Carrel
Alexandra SchmittMother of Carrel

Clifford McLaglenGiaccomo

Peter VoßEdward Whymper

Paul GraetzMeynet
Johanna EwaldWife of Meynet

Hannes SchneiderCross

Ernst PetersenHadow
Hugo LehnerHudson