Pierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a very high level: mountaineering, jurisprudence and policy. The Everest mountaineer, rescued from the Freney Pillar, the passionate jurist, the former sports minister, privy counsellor, and president of the French Constitutional Court is a charismatic personality. This sensitive film portrait follows a line, which Pierre Mazeaud himself has quoted: “Alpinism belongs to those who provide themselves with means to reach their goals, to those who are fully committed to a goal, to those, who know the value of solidarity of men, and to those who are aware that true human existence can only be fulfilled by proceeding with a team of roped-partners.”
Gilles Chappaz
Director, Writer
Pierre Mazeaud
Self
Nicolas Jaeger
Self
Lucien Bérardini
Self (archive footage)
Walter Bonatti
Self (archive footage)
Roberto Sorgato
Self
René Vernadet
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Ertaud
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Chirac
Self (archive footage)
Anne Sinclair
Self (archive footage)
The Alpinist78%
180° South72%
The Class of ‘9271%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Free Solo78%
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible73%
Daguerréotypes73%
Varda par Agnès78%
Being James Bond77%
Voyeur59%
Stop Making Sense83%
Le Bus : Les Bleus en grève69%
Directed by John Ford70%
Ronaldo70%
12 jours71%
The Dawn Wall80%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Maidentrip70%
Everybody’s Everything84%
