Premier de cordée

1944 [FRENCH]

Action / Adventure / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 106 106

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Plot summary

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.

Director

Top cast

Maurice Baquet as Boule
Jacques Dufilho as Fernand Lourtier
Roger Blin as Paul Moury
Guy Decomble as Warfield
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812.27 MB
988*720
French 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.56 GB
1472*1072
French 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Higher than the world.

Long before the Nouvelle Vague,there were directors who tried to take the French cinema out of the studio;Louis Daquin was one of them.His movie,adapted from a famous Roger Frison-Roche novel,was filmed on location,with real mountaineers,without any special effects (that's what the cast and credit tells us).The landscapes are really splendid and are the main asset of the movie.It was an escapist movie.The correct year was actually 1943.In its own way ,this film reflects the Occupation days zeitgeist.In his precedent work,"le Voyageur de la Toussaint" ,Daquin had already condemned all that weakened the family."1er de cordée" is ,in its own way, more of the same.The family could be in jeopardy because of the son/father antagonism -he wants to be a guide but his father is not prepared to accept it and urges him to become a hotelier,but the ending isthe triumph of the Family with a capital F.A family where men are the heroes:theirs is the struggle against a hostile nature.A woman's role is to wait and to take care of the house.The young guy tells his fiancée so: "your place is near my mother,she needs you,etc" .This is a thoroughly "sane " movie: there's no love scene ,which is quite a feat,even at the time.It's an open invitation to outdo yourself ,provided you're a man.
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Reviewed by morrison-dylan-fan 7 / 10

"Fear is like vertigo,we all experience it, those who claim not to know it, are liars or forgetful."

Coming down to the final trio of French films from 1944 that currently have English subtitles,I was intrigued by dbdumonteil's very good review about the outdoor filming aspect,leading to me getting set to climb a mountain.

View on the film:

Over a decade before the first tremor of the French New Wave was felt, co-writer/(with Alexandre Arnoux/Jacqueline Jacoupy & Paul Leclercq) director Louis Daquin is joined by future Rififi (1955-also reviewed) cinematographer Philippe Agostini in leaving the studio behind, and heading to the great outdoors in beautiful wide-shots capturing the mountain landscape.

Backed by a chirping score from Henri Sauguet and stating in the opening credits that "No stuntmen or special effects were used", Daquin impressively moves the heavy camera equipment of the era for spectacular long panning shots following Pierre climbing the rugged terrain under roasting natural light.

When taking a breather from all the mountain climbing, the writers counter the breakout nature of the filming style,with a more traditional, silky Melodrama tale.

Reflecting the rough-edge appearance of the mountains with a fight on the tough masculinity between Pierre (played by a very good, fresh face Andre Le Gall, who replaced Roger Pigaut,after he suffered a serious injury after falling down a crevasse) and his dad, the writers weave the family drama clash with a sly subtext showing support for The French Resistance,in Pierre overcoming all of the towering odds confronting him,and reaching the peak.

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