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