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The Conqueror Of The Useless

The Conqueror Of The Useless

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📜 Overview: 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in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the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.
🌏 Languages Available: French
📆 Date Released: 1966-12-23
⌚ Running Time: 31 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 10.0

Beloved Cast

Lionel Terray original image
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Lionel Terray
Guido Magnone original image
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Guido Magnone
Jacques Ertaud original image
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Jacques Ertaud
Maurice Herzog original image
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Maurice Herzog
Louis Lachenal original image
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Louis Lachenal
René Ferlet original image
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René Ferlet
Marianne Terray original image
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Marianne Terray
Bill Dunaway original image
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Bill Dunaway
Suzanne Thiollière original image
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Suzanne Thiollière

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