The Burning Mountains
1931 · 102 min · War, Drama
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.
- Directors
- Luis Trenker, Joë Hamman
- Writer
- Luis Trenker
- Released
- November 13, 1931
- Language
- French
Cast
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