Movie

Gilberte de Courgenay

Released: April 17, 1941 (1941)

Runtime: 112 minutes

Genres: War, Drama, History

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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Heinrich Gretler as Friedrich Odermatt
Age at release: 43
Max Knapp as Fritz Gubler
Age at release: 41
Schaggi Streuli as Gustav Hannart
Age at release: 41
Rudolf Bernhard as René Max Gengenbach
Age at release: 40
Zarli Carigiet as Art Caviezel
Age at release: 33
Jakob Sulzer as Otto Helbling
Age at release: 33
Erwin Kohlund as Peter Hasler
Age at release: 26
Anne-Marie Blanc as Gilberte Montavon
Age at release: 21
Ditta Oesch as Tilly Odermatt
Age at release: 21
Hélène Dalmet as Madame Montavon
Age at release: Unknown

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Heinz Woester as Le capitaine
Age at release: 39
Peter W. Staub as Le caporal
Age at release: 30