The Fight for the Matterhorn
The Fight for the Matterhorn

The Fight for the Matterhorn

8.3

1 hr 57 min

1928-11-27

4

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.

Drama

Trailers

Characters

Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker

Jean-Antoine Carrel

Marcella Albani

Marcella Albani

Felicitas, Wife of Carrel

Alexandra Schmitt

Alexandra Schmitt

Mother of Carrel

Clifford McLaglen

Clifford McLaglen

Giaccomo

Peter Voß

Peter Voß

Edward Whymper

Paul Graetz

Paul Graetz

Meynet

Similar Movies

Mountains Clad in Green

1971-12-31

Still Alive – The Drama on Mount Kenya

2025-09-27

Dogville

2003-05-21

Sissi: The Young Empress

1956-12-01

The Brave

1970-01-01

The Commissar of Light

1966-07-16

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000-07-06

Times and Winds

2006-09-29

Black Narcissus

1947-05-26

North Face

2008-10-23

First in Line

1944-02-23

An Unusual Exhibition

1968-12-15

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

1929-10-10

Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud

1961-07-14

My Son

2017-09-20

Uphill

2024-12-12

Shoot to Kill

1988-02-12

Kundun

1997-12-25

Mad of Madness

2025-05-22

Touching the Void

2003-09-05