Pierre Mazeaud, la vie en face(s)

Synopsis

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)