Jan 01, 1944
20 min
Full-HD

Autour d'un Film de Montagne (1944)

Making of the cinematographic shooting of "Premier de Cordée" directed by Louis Daquin in the Mont-Blanc massif. In 1943. Alain Pol films the risky adventure of filming in the high mountains with a team of seventy people. The images of the making-of reveal the technical constraints encountered by the actors and technicians: falling rocks, crossing glaciers and long approach walks at altitude to the filming locations. Six actors and technicians will also be injured and the main role - that of Pierre - will be reassigned to André Le Gall following a bad fall by Roger Pigaut.

Category

Documentary

Country

France

Companies

Pathé

Yves Furet

Narrator

Irène Corday

Self

André Le Gall

Self

Maurice Baquet

Self

Jacques Dufilho

Self

Louis Daquin

Self

Philippe Agostini

Self

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