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.
Luis Trenker
Director
Joë Hamman
Director
Luis Trenker
Screenplay
Charles Delac
Producer
Marcel Vandal
Producer
Giuseppe Becce
Original Music Composer
Marie-Antoinette Buzet
Pia Dimaï
Joë Hamman
Le lieutenant Gall
Armand Bernard
Le soldat autrichien
Georges Péclet
Le lieutenant Franchini
Luis Trenker
Florian Dimaï
Henri Valbel
Le commandant
Willy Rozier
André Saint-Germain
