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Gilberte de Courgenay

Gilberte de Courgenay

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 17, 1941

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

War, Drama, History

User Score

50%

Original Title

Gilberte de Courgenay

Production Companies

Praesens-Film, Praesens-Film

Director

Franz Schnyder

Description

Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers during the First World War, and remembered most of their names. She was still a teenager when the war began, and was immortalised by a song written during the war years by the Swiss-German bard and lute player, Hans Inn der Gand.