The Fight for the Matterhorn

The Fight for the Matterhorn (1928)

Drama

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.

star 9 7.1
  • Release Date: 1928-11-27
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Directors: Nunzio Malasomma, Mario Bonnard.

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Cast

  • Luis Trenker

    Jean-Antoine Carrel

  • Marcella Albani

    Felicitas, Wife of Carrel

  • Alexandra Schmitt

    Mother of Carrel

  • Clifford McLaglen

    Giaccomo

  • Peter Voß

    Edward Whymper

  • Paul Graetz

    Meynet

  • Johanna Ewald

    Wife of Meynet

  • Hannes Schneider

    Cross

  • Ernst Petersen

    Hadow

  • Hugo Lehner

    Hudson

  • Luggi

    Lord Douglas

  • Heinrich Gretler

    Seiler, Hotelwirt

  • Erich Haußmann

    Narrator

  • Hermann Mayer-Falkow

    Narrator

  • Edith Robbers

    Narrator

  • Peter Aufdenblatten

  • Otto Furrer

  • Edward Whymper

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