The Conqueror Of The Useless
Overview
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in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the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.
Release date
23/12/1966
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Original Soundtrack
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The World at Arm's Length
Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell
Art of Freedom
Opera Vertical
Uncharted Lines
Berg
Blindsight
The North Face of the Camembert
Baquet's Comeback
To Be First: The Quest for Yangmolong
National Geographic - Everest, Una Sfida Lunga 50 Anni
Marco Étoile Filante
Le Dernier Voyage de Patrick Edlinger
Plan-Séquence
Passion Extrême
Plesiosaurios vivos
Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre
Sikkim
Les 4 Faces de l'Aiguille Verte
Abrazando la Patagonia