The Burning Mountains

The Burning Mountains — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 13, 1931
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Genres
• War, Drama
• Director
• Luis Trenker

The Burning Mountains — Cast

M

Marie-Antoinette Buzet Pia Dimaï Joë Hamman Le lieutenant Gall Armand Bernard Le soldat autrichien Georges Péclet Le lieutenant Franchini Luis Trenker Florian Dimaï Henri Valbel Le commandant Willy Rozier

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André Saint-Germain