The Summit of the Gods

(2021)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 433 votes

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Mystery

Year: 2021

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: France, Luxembourg

Director: Patrick Imbert

Cast: Эрик Эрсон-Макарель, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura, Lazare Herson-Macarel, Kylian Rehlinger, François Dunoyer, Philippe Vincent, Luc Bernard, Marc Arnaud, Jérôme Keen

Plot

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

Were George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine the first men to scale Everest on June 8th, 1924? Only the little Kodak camera they took with them might reveal the truth. In Kathmandu 70 years later, a young Japanese reporter named Fukamachi recognizes the camera in the hands of the mysterious Habu Jôji, an outcast climber believed missing for years. Fukamachi enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, towards the summit of the gods.