Éric Escoffier - Portrait of a Man Who Became Ordinary

Éric Escoffier - Portrait of a Man Who Became Ordinary

1994 fr 26 minutes

Rating: 10

Plot

Meeting in Chamonix with Éric Escoffier, famous mountaineer of the 80s, victim of a car accident in September 1987. Victim of multiple fractures and total paralysis on his left side, Escoffier managed to walk again, despite the doctors' pessimistic prognoses... The commentary on images of Éric Escoffier in his daily life in Chamonix and archive images and photographs alternates with archive documents, extracts from the films "Profession grimpeur" by Philippe Lallet and "Face nord" by Jean Afanassieff as well as interviews with the protagonist, Rémi Éric Escoffier and Michel Garcia. Great among the greatest, Éric Escoffier, who disappeared in the mountains at Broad Peak on July 29, 1998, will never have been an ordinary man.

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Cast

Eric Escoffier

Eric Escoffier

Self

Rémi Escoffier

Rémi Escoffier

Self

Michel Garcia

Michel Garcia

Self

Stéphane Schaffter

Stéphane Schaffter

Self

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