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Struggle for the Matterhorn

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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox film

|name = Struggle for the Matterhorn

|image = Der Kampf ums Matterhorn.jpg

|caption = German theatrical release poster

|native_name =

|director = Mario Bonnard
Nunzio Malasomma

|producer =

|writer = Arnold Fanck
Nunzio Malasomma

|based_on =

|starring =

|cinematography = Sepp Allgeier
Willy Winterstein

|studio = Cinfilm AG
Hom-AG fr Filmfabrikation

|distributor = Universum Film AG

|released =

|runtime = 82 minutes

|country = Germany
Switzerland

|language = Silent
German intertitles

}}

'Struggle for the 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. Trenker later remade the film as 'The Challenge' in 1938.

It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on location in Switzerland.

Plot



Based on a 1928 novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn.

Cast



*Luis Trenker as Jean-Antoine Carrel

*Marcella Albani as Felicitas, Carrel's wife

* as Mother of Carrel

*Clifford McLaglen as Giaccomo

*Peter Vo as Edward Whymper

*Paul Graetz as Meynet

* as Meynet's wife

*Hannes Schneider as Cross

*Ernst Petersen as Hadow

*Hugo Lehner as Hudson

*Luggi as Lord Douglas

*Heinrich Gretler as Seiler, hotel Host

References




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