The Conqueror Of The Useless

Synopsis

Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.

Main Cast

Lionel Terray

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Guido Magnone

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jacques Ertaud

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 23%

Maurice Herzog

Self

Age : 93 | Popularity : 4%

Louis Lachenal

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

René Ferlet

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Marianne Terray

Self

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Bill Dunaway

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Marcel Ichac
Writing	Writer	Marcel Ichac
Crew	Cinematography	Lionel Terray Marcel Ichac Jean-Jacques Languepin René Vernadet
Sound	Music	François de Roubaix
Art	Assistant Director of Photography	Jack Lesage
Department	Role	Name

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