The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.
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Stephan Bloetzer
Stéphane Malten
Also in
Der letzte Postillon vom St. Gotthard
The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Werner Düby
L'ingénieur
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White Majesty
The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
Anton Kutter
Serge de Poligny
Max Iklé
André Legrand
Gustav Diessl
Jacques Burgard
Known for
Westfront 1918
Pandora's Box
René Le Hénaff
August Kern
Léon Belières
Malten
Known for
Heartbeat
Giovanni Seyta
Simone Bourday
Monique Ander
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Au Bonheur des Dames
René Le Hénaff Director · Serge de Poligny Director Anton Kutter Screenplay
First release December 3, 1934 · Produced in Switzerland, Germany · Production Exclusivités Giovanni Seyta, Genossenschaft Filmdienst (GEFI)
Production
Bavaria Film
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Exclusivités Giovanni Seyta
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Genossenschaft Filmdienst (GEFI)
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Schweizer Film-Finanzierungs AG
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Seyta-Kern
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Switzerland · Germany
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Original title
Un de la montagne
Original language
French
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French
Release dates
France · December 3, 1934
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No release date listed for United States.
France
June 28, 1935 · Theatrical · re-release
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