(Les Monts en flammes)

Content: Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides in the same area in the Dolomites, fighting to conquer the same high pass (Col Alto). When the war is over, they meet again. Their friendship has survived the war. There are two other versions of the film. The original was shot in German the same year (Berge in Flammen). The other, shot in English the year after, was produced by the American Universal Pictures (The Doomed Battalion). Both uses scenes from the original German version.

Countries:

France,

Germany

Genres:

War,

Drama

Runtime:

102 minutes

Year:

1931

Directors:

Luis Trenker

Production companies:

Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac

Actors:

Pia Dimaï

Le lieutenant Gall

Le soldat autrichien

Le lieutenant Franchini

Florian Dimaï

Crews:

Director

Director

Novel

Screenplay

Producer