The Fight for the Matterhorn
movie
Released November 27, 1928
Genres:
Overview
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 Trenker
as
Jean-Antoine Carrel
Marcella Albani
as
Felicitas, Wife of Carrel
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Alexandra Schmitt
as
Mother of Carrel
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Clifford McLaglen
as
Giaccomo
Peter Voß
as
Edward Whymper
Paul Graetz
as
Meynet
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Johanna Ewald
as
Wife of Meynet
Hannes Schneider
as
Cross
Ernst Petersen
as
Hadow
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Hugo Lehner
as
Hudson
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Luggi
as
Lord Douglas
Heinrich Gretler
as
Seiler, Hotelwirt
