The Red Needle

The Red Needle — Plot

A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has come to this hotel in Savoie to successfully climb the Aiguille Rouge. The lawyer rejects Maya at first, but ends up becoming her lover and promises to run away with her... once the Aiguille Rouge has been climbed. But a storm breaks out during the ascent, and the lawyer dies, struck down.

• Release date
• June 7, 1951
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Emil E. Reinert

The Red Needle — Cast

Michel Auclair Florian Faber Michèle Philippe Maya Berger Jean Marchat Berger Margo Lion Fanny René Génin Henri

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Colette Jacommet Maya, child

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Claude Maritz Hans, guide Robert Le Béal