
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.”
Cast

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)
Milan Doubek
Self (archive footage)
Egon Wurm
Self (archive footage)
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