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Marco Étoile Filante
10.0 / 10• 2008• 1h 30m•NR• French
ActionDocumentaryDrama
Storyline
Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid with hair sometimes blond peroxidized, green or blue clashed in his valley: Chamonix, mecca of mountaineering. His thing was to go up and down on a snowboard. . 90 minutes September 8, 2002, altitude 8848 meters, rare oxygen, his head already brushing the sky and his snowboard running, Marco Siffredi, 23, rushes from the summit of Everest in the Horbein corridor and its slopes at 50 degrees . A year earlier, he had already made the first descent of the mountain on a snowboard. But there remains another corridor… more direct. It's not a challenge, just a reason to be... However, that day, at the top of the roof of the world, his trace is lost...
Cast & Crew
Marco Siffredi
Self
Lead
Bertrand Delapierre
Self
Russell Brice
Self
Phurba Tashi Sherpa
Self
SC
Sandi Cochepain
Self
PM
Paul McLeod
Self
SF
Simon Favier
Self
RR
René Robert
Self
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Bertrand Delapierre's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Marco Étoile Filante is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
