The Fight for the Matterhorn

The Fight for the Matterhorn

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 27, 1928

Runtime

1h 57m

Genres

Drama

User Score

90%

Original Title

Der Kampf ums Matterhorn

Production Companies

Cinéfilm AG, Hom-AG für Filmfabrikation

Director

Mario Bonnard

Description

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.