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Gilberte de Courgenay (1941)

Gilberte de Courgenay (1941)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1941, April 17
Directors: Franz Schnyder
Countries: Switzerland
Production: Praesens-Film, Praesens-Film
Cast: Anne-Marie Blanc, Peter W. Staub, Erwin Kohlund, Schaggi Streuli, Max Knapp, Heinrich Gretler, Zarli Carigiet, Heinz Woester, Rudolf Bernhard, Jakob Sulzer, Ditta Oesch, Hélène Dalmet

Overview:

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.