Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers during the First World War, and remembered most of their names. She was still a teenager when the war began, and was immortalised by a song written during the war years by the Swiss-German bard and lute player, Hans Inn der Gand.
Directed by Franz Schnyder
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Cast

Erwin Kohlund
Peter Hasler

Anne-Marie Blanc
Gilberte Montavon

Heinrich Gretler
Friedrich Odermatt

Ditta Oesch
Tilly Odermatt

Zarli Carigiet
Art Caviezel

Jakob Sulzer
Otto Helbling

Rudolf Bernhard
René Max Gengenbach
Hélène Dalmet
Madame Montavon

Max Knapp
Fritz Gubler

Schaggi Streuli
Gustav Hannart

Heinz Woester
Le capitaine

Peter W. Staub
Le caporal
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