The Fight for the Matterhorn

Struggle for the Matterhorn German Der Kampf ums Matterhorn is a 1928 GermanSwiss silent drama film codirected by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker Marcella Albani and Alexandra Schmitt The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s Art direction was by Heinrich Richter Based on a novel by Carl Haensel the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938