CinemaOSMovie · 1966 · 0h 31m

The Conqueror Of The Useless

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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in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the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.

Directed byMarcel Ichac

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 31m
Language
FR
Released
December 23, 1966
Studios
Filmartic

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Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Lionel Terray

Lionel Terray

Self

Guido Magnone

Guido Magnone

Self

Louis Lachenal

Louis Lachenal

Self

Jean Franco

Jean Franco

Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

Self

Jacques Ertaud

Jacques Ertaud

Self

René Ferlet

René Ferlet

Self

Suzanne Thiollière

Suzanne Thiollière

Self

Marianne Terray

Self

Bill Dunaway

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Marcel Ichac
Marcel Ichac
Written by
Marcel Ichac
Marcel Ichac

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