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.
Directed by René Le Hénaff, Serge de Poligny
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Cast
Stephan Bloetzer
Stéphane Malten
Werner Düby
L'ingénieur
Gustav Diessl
Jacques Burgard
Léon Belières
Malten
Simone Bourday
Monique Ander
Jean Toulout
Le pasteur
Beni Führer
Guy Ander
Lucien Dayle
Le président
Jacques de Féraudy
Le juge fédéral Reymond
Maximilienne
Mme Malten
Paul Clerget
Le président du tribunal
Marcel Vibert
L'avocat
Thekla Ahrens
Marie (uncredited)
Hildegard Amon
L'Américaine (uncredited)
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