The Climb (2017 film)

The Climb
The Climb
	Film poster
Directed by	Ludovic Bernard
Written by	Ludovic Bernard; Nadir Dendoune; Olivier Ducray
Based on	Un tocard sur le toit du monde; by Nadir Dendoune
Produced by	Laurence Lascary
Starring	Ahmed Sylla; Alice Belaïdi
Cinematography	Yannick Ressigeac
Edited by	Romain Rioult
Music by	Lucien Papalu
Production; companies	France 2 Cinéma; DACP; Mars Films; Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Distributed by	Mars Distribution
Release dates	18 February 2017 (Festival du Film de Comédie de L'Alpe d'Huez); 25 January 2017;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$6.2 million
Box office	$8.4 million

The Climb (French: L'ascension) is a 2017 French adventure comedy film directed by Ludovic Bernard which tells the real-life story of Nadir Dendoune.^[3]

Plot[]

Samy Diakhaté is a young man of Senegalese origin from the Cité des 4000 in La Courneuve. Like many of his friends, he is unemployed but wants to get out of it. Since middle school, he has been in love with Nadia, an employee of the neighborhood supermarket. He try to win her with his kindness, but she resists him, for fear of loving a frivolous boy who will disappoint her. Samy tells her that out of love for her, he would climb Mount Everest, but Nadia takes this for a joke. Samy, determined to impress Nadia, starts looking for funding for his trip to Nepal. Without having experience of mountaineering or even physical training, he throws himself into the adventure but quickly realizes his weaknesses and the colossal challenge he must face. Meanwhile, the news has spread through the suburbs and Paris like wildfire: the whole suburb, radio and press, is with Samy to cheer him on and watch his exploits hour by hour, while his mother is dying of anguish at losing her son.

Cast[]

Ahmed Sylla as Samy Diakhate
Alice Belaïdi as Nadia
[fr] as Ben
[fr] as Jeff
[fr] as Max
Maïmouna Gueye as Madame Diakhate
[fr] as M. Diakhate
[fr] as Houria
Moussa Maaskri as Nassir
Umesh Tamang as Johonny
[fr] as Kevin
Jochen Hägele as Emmerich
Julian Bugier as Himself

Production[]

The movie was first introduced during the .

References[]

^ "L\'Ascension (2017) - JPBox-Office".
^ "The Climb".
^ Brady, Tara (28 December 2017). "The Climb review: a big-hearted crowd-pleaser in the name of love". Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

External links[]

The Climb at IMDb

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[1] "L\'Ascension (2017) - JPBox-Office".

[2] "The Climb".

[3] Brady, Tara (28 December 2017). "The Climb review: a big-hearted crowd-pleaser in the name of love". Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

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