First in Line

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.

Cast

Irène Corday

Aline Lourtier

André Le Gall

Pierre Servettaz

Marcel Delaître

Ravanat dit « Le Rouge »

Jean Davy

Hubert de Vallon

Maurice Baquet

Boule

More like this

Bear Island

1979

The Call of the Wild

1972

The Mountain

1956

Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues

2015

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

2024