Stars at Noon

• Roger Blin
• Pierre Danny
• Pierre Rousseau
• Lionel Terray
• René Desmaison
• Jacques Ertaud
• Gérard Duke
• Michel Vaucher

Stars over the Mont Blanc ( also stars at noon, in the original: Les Etoiles de midi ) is a French mountain film from 1959 by Marcel Ichac and Jacques Ertaud, produced by Filmartic. German premiere was on 23 October 1962.

Action

" Filmed in the Mont Blanc area, exciting documentary feature film depicts " by true events " the daring escape from a German prisoner of war in the high mountains and two other episodes: a bailout and a difficult wall climbing. "

Criticism

" A stirring docudrama about some of the great things French climbers. (...) The actors are all climbers, and they bring an immediacy and their daring one, so that the film is a 78minütiger winner. "(New York Times)

Comments

• Jacques Ertaud the film: " Ichac invented by Les étoiles ... a new genre: the docu-fiction. "

Awards

• Grand prix du cinéma français 1959
• Grand Prize of the city of Trento at the Festival international du film de Montagne et d' Exploration 1959
• Trophée Enrico Orlandi Club alpino italiano
• Cup of the Prefect of Belluno at the Festival of Sports Films in Cortina d' Ampezzo
• French contribution to the Berlinale 1959