Gilberte de Courgenay

Gilberte Montavon was a legend in her own lifetime. As a young woman, she was confidante to hundreds of thousands of Swiss-German speaking soldiers during the First World War, and remembered most of their names. She was still a teenager when the war began, and was immortalised by a song written during the war years by the Swiss-German bard and lute player, Hans Inn der Gand.

5.5

112 min

Cast

Erwin Kohlund

as Peter Hasler

Anne-Marie Blanc

as Gilberte Montavon

Heinrich Gretler

as Friedrich Odermatt

Ditta Oesch

as Tilly Odermatt

Zarli Carigiet

as Art Caviezel

Jakob Sulzer

as Otto Helbling

Rudolf Bernhard

as René Max Gengenbach

Hélène Dalmet

as Madame Montavon

Max Knapp

as Fritz Gubler

Schaggi Streuli

as Gustav Hannart

Heinz Woester

as Le capitaine

Peter W. Staub

as Le caporal

Director

Franz Schnyder