
The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. There is a French version of the film, titled 'Un de la montagne', shot the year after with the same script but with different actors and by a different director.

Gustav Diessl

Hertha Thiele

Carl de Vogt

Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

Rolf Pinegger

Helmuth Renar

Stephan Bloetzer

Werner Düby

Beni Führer

Max Weydner

Emil Höfer

Thekla Ahrens

Richard Ryen

Ernst Schrumpf

David Zogg

Georg Henrich

Hildegard Amon

Fritz Steuri

Walter Brügger

Hans Brunner

Hermann Dallichow