

Giusto Gervasutti - Il Solitario Signore delle Pareti
Overview
Giusto Gervasutti (1909-1946) was an Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be the best mountaineer of his generation and one of the greatest of the post-war era. He achieved his first feats in 1930 and revolutionized mountaineering in the Western Alps by repeating and opening routes of extreme difficulty that are still considered absolute routes today: the east face of the Grandes Jorasses (with his friend Boccalatte), the northeast spur of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, the north face of the Grandes Jorasses, the Gervasutti route on the Gugliermina, the east face of Mont Blanc du Tacul (where he died in 1946), among an incredible list of climbs. The film, made to mark the centenary of Giusto Gervasutti's birth, portrays a solitary and tormented mountaineer, endowed with an impeccable moral sense, an advocate of light and ethical mountaineering, always in search of an unattainable happiness.
Top Cast

Giusto Gervasutti
Self (archive footage)

Riccardo Cassin
Self

Andrea Giorda
Self

Arnaud Clavel
Self

Spiro Dalla Porta Xydias
Self

Pietro Crivellaro
Self

Sergio Gervasutti
Self

Alessandro Ollier
Self
Carlo Ziggiotto
Self
Luisa Balestrieri
Self
Valerio Clarey
Self
Key Film Crew
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