Der Kampf ums Matterhorn
Movie - 117mins
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:
Hermann
Mayer-Falkow
Edith
Robbers
Peter
Aufdenblatten
Otto
Furrer
Edward
Whymper
Luis
Trenker
Marcella
Albani
Alexandra
Schmitt
Clifford
McLaglen
Peter
Voß
Paul
Graetz
Johanna
Ewald
Hannes
Schneider
Ernst
Petersen
Hugo
Lehner
Luggi
Heinrich
Gretler
Erich
Haußmann
Hermann
Mayer-Falkow
Edith
Robbers
Peter
Aufdenblatten
Otto
Furrer
Edward
Whymper
Luis
Trenker
Marcella
Albani
Alexandra
Schmitt
Clifford
McLaglen
Peter
Voß