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Documentary / Historical
1865-2015 - 150 ans de l'alpinisme
Cedric Bejeannin (2015)
150 years ago the summit of the Matterhorn, 4478m was reached for the first time. The Matterhorn, with its performance and its tragic end, marks the end of the golden age of mountaineering, a period during which man changed his vision of the mountain and especially of the Alps. This period of the golden age was marked by the association of men and summits. The mountains became a game, a sport, a source of competition and exploration. How did this uncontrollable attraction between these pioneers and these summits arise, how did they achieve these exploits, who are they, what has changed for humans and mountaineering? What about today...?1865-2015 - 150 ans de l'alpinisme
- 2015
- France
- 52 min
150 years ago the summit of the Matterhorn, 4478m was reached for the first time. The Matterhorn, with its performance and its tragic end, marks the end of the golden age of mountaineering, a period during which man changed his vision of the mountain and especially of the Alps. This period of the golden age was marked by the association of men and summits. The mountains became a game, a sport, a source of competition and exploration. How did this uncontrollable attraction between these pioneers and these summits arise, how did they achieve these exploits, who are they, what has changed for humans and mountaineering? What about today...?Climbing locations
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Documentary / Chronicle
Un hiver avec les sauveteurs du Mont-Blanc
Nicolas Moscara (2012)
In winter, the Mont-Blanc massif attracts thousands of skiers, hikers and mountaineers. For some, the stay turned into a tragedy, requiring the intervention of the men of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon of Chamonix. During a winter, Nicolas Moscara followed these professionals, using cameras placed on their helmets to obtain spectacular and original images. Thus, he filmed rescues deep in the mountain: the descent into hell of Rino, trapped for 24 hours in a crevasse or the miraculous rescue of Michael, an American skier who fell in the heart of the glacier.Un hiver avec les sauveteurs du Mont-Blanc
- 2012
- France
- 54 min
In winter, the Mont-Blanc massif attracts thousands of skiers, hikers and mountaineers. For some, the stay turned into a tragedy, requiring the intervention of the men of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon of Chamonix. During a winter, Nicolas Moscara followed these professionals, using cameras placed on their helmets to obtain spectacular and original images. Thus, he filmed rescues deep in the mountain: the descent into hell of Rino, trapped for 24 hours in a crevasse or the miraculous rescue of Michael, an American skier who fell in the heart of the glacier.Climbing locations
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Mont Blanc - L'été meurtrier
Nicolas Moscara (2012)
July 12, 2012. Nine people perished in a snowfall at Mont Maudit, one of the routes leading to the summit of Mont-Blanc. It is the deadliest avalanche of the decade in the massif. On the spot, about fifty rescuers were mobilized: the teams of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie de haute montagne de Chamonix), the fire brigade, the CRS and the Italian rescue workers. A dangerous intervention at an altitude of more than 4000 metres, which director Nicolas Moscara was authorised to film.- 2012
- France
- 53 min
July 12, 2012. Nine people perished in a snowfall at Mont Maudit, one of the routes leading to the summit of Mont-Blanc. It is the deadliest avalanche of the decade in the massif. On the spot, about fifty rescuers were mobilized: the teams of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie de haute montagne de Chamonix), the fire brigade, the CRS and the Italian rescue workers. A dangerous intervention at an altitude of more than 4000 metres, which director Nicolas Moscara was authorised to film.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
Crime à l'altimètre
José Giovanni (1996)
An expert mountaineer meets an attractive young Vietnamese woman who is abused by a despotic former mercenary. Determined to free her, he plans a perfect crime to get rid of that type, preparing an alibi based on the realization in an impossible time of a journey to a mountain shelter. Once his objective is covered, a judge initiates the investigation, suspecting that the mountaineer has something to hide.- 1996
- Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland
- 93 min
An expert mountaineer meets an attractive young Vietnamese woman who is abused by a despotic former mercenary. Determined to free her, he plans a perfect crime to get rid of that type, preparing an alibi based on the realization in an impossible time of a journey to a mountain shelter. Once his objective is covered, a judge initiates the investigation, suspecting that the mountaineer has something to hide.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Chronicle
Le Doigt de Dieu
Yvan Estienne (2017)
Through the confidences of Michel Serres, renowned philosopher and unknown mountain climber, and also stories of climbers and mountaineers, we enter to a vertical world, unconventional, where the hostility of the high altitude and the passion of men coexist. What is the sense of mountaineering? Between philosophy, action, and self-discovery, the documentary takes us very far, to the very heart of mountaineering and asks the question that every climber will ask himself one day: Why climbing up there? This film proposes to answer these questions while following two ropes on an emblematic summit of the Alps, the Meije (3984 m) in the heart of the Ecrins National Park.Yvan Estienne, Laurent Cistac, Pierre Petit
- 2017
- France
- 52 min
Through the confidences of Michel Serres, renowned philosopher and unknown mountain climber, and also stories of climbers and mountaineers, we enter to a vertical world, unconventional, where the hostility of the high altitude and the passion of men coexist. What is the sense of mountaineering? Between philosophy, action, and self-discovery, the documentary takes us very far, to the very heart of mountaineering and asks the question that every climber will ask himself one day: Why climbing up there? This film proposes to answer these questions while following two ropes on an emblematic summit of the Alps, the Meije (3984 m) in the heart of the Ecrins National Park.Climbing locations
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Mémoire de glace
Pierre-Antoine Hiroz (2006)
In the sumptuous setting of the Mont Blanc, a family secret in the form of a perfectly conserved body has remained buried deep in the ice for 15 years. Its reappearance will spark off many emotions. Everyone had believed that Bertrand Santini had been living happily abroad all those years. The difficult task of solving the mystery surrounding Bertrand Santini’s death falls to Police Lieutenant Martin Le Kerrec. From false leads to good intuition, from false suspects to true revelations, the young policeman will gently but determinedly untangle the painful secret weighing down on two families who have lived a lie for fifteen years.- 2006
- France
- 90 min
In the sumptuous setting of the Mont Blanc, a family secret in the form of a perfectly conserved body has remained buried deep in the ice for 15 years. Its reappearance will spark off many emotions. Everyone had believed that Bertrand Santini had been living happily abroad all those years. The difficult task of solving the mystery surrounding Bertrand Santini’s death falls to Police Lieutenant Martin Le Kerrec. From false leads to good intuition, from false suspects to true revelations, the young policeman will gently but determinedly untangle the painful secret weighing down on two families who have lived a lie for fifteen years.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Portrait
Le Baladeur
Jean-Michel Rodrigo (2008)
Portrait of french climber Guido Magnone. Originally born in Italy, Magnone arrives in France at the age of three. After studying art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he discovered the mountain and quickly became one of the best climbers of his generation. He made prestigious conquests such as the western face of the Drus in the Alps, the first climbs of Fitz Roy in Patagonia with Lionel Terray or Makalu in the Himalayas. He also undertakes many expeditions in the Caucasus, the Rockies ... Magnone also participated in the creation of UCPA (Union des Centres Sportifs de Plein Air)and was president of the Groupe de Haute Montagne from 1961 to 1965.Jean-Michel Rodrigo, Marina Paugam
- 2008
- France
- 48 min
Portrait of french climber Guido Magnone. Originally born in Italy, Magnone arrives in France at the age of three. After studying art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he discovered the mountain and quickly became one of the best climbers of his generation. He made prestigious conquests such as the western face of the Drus in the Alps, the first climbs of Fitz Roy in Patagonia with Lionel Terray or Makalu in the Himalayas. He also undertakes many expeditions in the Caucasus, the Rockies ... Magnone also participated in the creation of UCPA (Union des Centres Sportifs de Plein Air)and was president of the Groupe de Haute Montagne from 1961 to 1965.Climbing locations
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La Grande Cordée
Jean Afanassieff (1997)
French mountaineering after the war underwent great renewal. In contrast to aristocratic mountaineering with personalities like Henri de Ségogne, and professional mountaineering with guides as the emblematic figures, a new form of amateur mountaineering developed from the Parisian working classes: 'cheeky' mountaineering. The Robert Paragot-Lucien Bérardini team is the most striking illustration of this. Insolent, iconoclastic, anticonformist, they symbolise the post-war climbers from modest backgrounds who, caring nothing for conventions and rules, upset the stereotypes of the 'perfect mountaineer'.- 1997
- France
- 52 min
French mountaineering after the war underwent great renewal. In contrast to aristocratic mountaineering with personalities like Henri de Ségogne, and professional mountaineering with guides as the emblematic figures, a new form of amateur mountaineering developed from the Parisian working classes: 'cheeky' mountaineering. The Robert Paragot-Lucien Bérardini team is the most striking illustration of this. Insolent, iconoclastic, anticonformist, they symbolise the post-war climbers from modest backgrounds who, caring nothing for conventions and rules, upset the stereotypes of the 'perfect mountaineer'.Climbing locations
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Documentary / Portrait
Vertiges
Ivan Maucuit (2012)
Affected by a lethal genetic disease, Christophe brings us into the world of verticality. Fighting with numerous medical issues, unknown from the public, he's one of the best climbers on earth- 2012
- France
- 52 min
Affected by a lethal genetic disease, Christophe brings us into the world of verticality. Fighting with numerous medical issues, unknown from the public, he's one of the best climbers on earthClimbing locations
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Le méridien des Ecrins
Evrard Wendenbaum (2009)
In the autumn of 2008, from the village of La Grave, Aymeric Clouet and Christophe Dumarest decide to follow the climb of eight North faces of the Massif des Ecrins on an imaginary route from north to south, which they call Le Méridien des Écrins. More than 12 days running along the steep ridges, the steep couloirs, and the vertiginous walls of this sumptuous massif lead them to the brink of exhaustion and allow us to discover their personalities, their vision of the mountain, their sensitivity, and to understand how an effective rope team often compared to the legendary Lachenal-Terray works.- 2009
- France
- 35 min
In the autumn of 2008, from the village of La Grave, Aymeric Clouet and Christophe Dumarest decide to follow the climb of eight North faces of the Massif des Ecrins on an imaginary route from north to south, which they call Le Méridien des Écrins. More than 12 days running along the steep ridges, the steep couloirs, and the vertiginous walls of this sumptuous massif lead them to the brink of exhaustion and allow us to discover their personalities, their vision of the mountain, their sensitivity, and to understand how an effective rope team often compared to the legendary Lachenal-Terray works.Climbing locations
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L'Everest à tout prix
Jean Afanassieff (1999)
Twenty years after his victorious ascent to Everest, the first for a French, Pierre Mazaud returns to Nepal and makes the journey from Kathmandu to the foot of the roof of the world. He is accompanied by Jean Afanassief who accompanied him during his victorious attempt in 1978. The film traces the history of Everest's ascents and the technological and sporting evolutions and revolutions that marked this epic. It also focuses on the consequences of globalization and the Himalayan adventure on the lives of Nepalese, the empowerment of Sherpas; it also raises the question of the consequences of this rapid evolution on safety and the environment.- 1999
- France
- 57 min
Twenty years after his victorious ascent to Everest, the first for a French, Pierre Mazaud returns to Nepal and makes the journey from Kathmandu to the foot of the roof of the world. He is accompanied by Jean Afanassief who accompanied him during his victorious attempt in 1978. The film traces the history of Everest's ascents and the technological and sporting evolutions and revolutions that marked this epic. It also focuses on the consequences of globalization and the Himalayan adventure on the lives of Nepalese, the empowerment of Sherpas; it also raises the question of the consequences of this rapid evolution on safety and the environment.Climbing locations
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Le Grec - Georges Livanos
Jean Afanassieff (1994)
Jean Afanasieff, a film director and the first Frenchman to climb Everest, pays homage to the veteran Georges Livanos, nicknamed 'the Greek', a famous mountaineer whose best performances were accomplished between 1950 and 1960. The documentary gives a clear-cut portrait. The personage comes out well on the screen and is genuine. A man who has made mountaineering history and is a point of reference for the new generations of climbers of Calanques, in Marseilles.- 1994
- France
- 26 min
Jean Afanasieff, a film director and the first Frenchman to climb Everest, pays homage to the veteran Georges Livanos, nicknamed 'the Greek', a famous mountaineer whose best performances were accomplished between 1950 and 1960. The documentary gives a clear-cut portrait. The personage comes out well on the screen and is genuine. A man who has made mountaineering history and is a point of reference for the new generations of climbers of Calanques, in Marseilles.Climbing locations
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