Opera Vertical Patrick Edlinger - Restaured - Full Movie

Opera Vertical, 1982 France 27 min. FRENCH LANGUAGE. A documentary film featuring the legendary French climbing pioneer Patrik Edlinger, it is one of the first films about climbing (1982) but no less fascinating than a modern film using advanced cinematic technology. Jean-Paul Janssen's documentary film, Opéra Vertical, introduces climbing to the general public and elevates climbers to modern heroes with a disdain for risk and death, a vision of climbing certainly far from the modern way of seeing climbing, focused on gesture and performance but in absolute safety. In the films, Edlinger climbs free solo in Buoux and on the walls of the Verdon Gorge.