Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Filmartic
Keywords
- himalaya mountain range
- patagonia, argentina
- mountaineering
- chamonix
- alpinism
- alpes
- escalade
- annapurna
- lionel terray
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Top Cast
Lionel Terray as Self
Guido Magnone as Self
Louis Lachenal as Self
Jean Franco as
Maurice Herzog as Self
Jacques Ertaud as Self
René Ferlet as Self
Suzanne Thiollière as Self
Top Crew
Marcel Ichac · Director, Writer
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