The Conqueror Of The Useless

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The Conqueror Of The Useless (1966)

Directed by Marcel Ichac

Documentary · 31m

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in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the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

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Cast

Lionel Terray Self Guido Magnone Self Louis Lachenal Self Jean Franco Maurice Herzog Self Jacques Ertaud Self René Ferlet Self Suzanne Thiollière Self
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Marianne Terray Self
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Bill Dunaway Self

Crew

Director
Marcel Ichac
Writer
Marcel Ichac

Details

Original title
Le Conquérant de L'Inutile
Release date
1966-12-23
Runtime
31m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Filmartic