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The Red Needles (Les aiguilles rouges)

German title: Les aiguilles rouges (Die roten Nadeln)
Spain title: La aventura de las águilas
Russian title: Красные пики
Original title: Les aiguilles rouges

Youth movie – France
Production year: 2005
Movie length: 93 minutes

Director: Jean-François Davy
Writer: Jean-François Davy, Gaia Guasti

Movie description:

September 1960. An unruly band of scouts, aged between 12 and 16, is sent on a three-day hike to climb the Brevent massif and its punishing 8,202 feet. In their backpacks they’re carrying their inexperience, carefreeness, differences, stories about girls, a letter from a brother in the military in Algeria. The beautiful mountain reveals its hidden face and the Eagle Patrol finds itself in an extremely perilous situation.

September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so majestic mountain which draws up face them very quickly reveals dangerous. All the techniques of orientation learned at the scouts will do nothing there. The teenagers find themselves delivered to themselves. Lost in the abrupt throats, the eight boys are confronted cold, with the hunger and the fear. A tension starts to reign between these young people of different origins and of which concerns divergent: some worry for Algeria, for a brother left to the combat, or a family threatened of expulsion in metropolis, still the girls worry to like others. The group divides then to find an exit, but one of them disappears in water frozen from a torrent. While young people try to protect itself in a closed down refuge, the others will seek the helps...

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