by InTrieste
On Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 8:45 p.m., the Cinema Ariston in Trieste will host a screening of 100 Solleder Lettenbauer, a feature-length documentary chronicling the first hundred years of one of the most significant climbing routes in the Dolomites. The director, Emanuele Confortin, will be present for the event, which is organized by the G.A.R.S. (Gruppo Alpinisti Rocciatori Sciatori) of the Società Alpina delle Giulie, the Trieste section of the Italian Alpine Club (Club Alpino Italiano).
The film traces the history and enduring legacy of the Solleder-Lettenbauer route on the northwest face of Monte Civetta, first climbed on August 7, 1925, by the Munich alpinists Emil Solleder and Gustav Lettenbauer. Their ascent—over 1,100 meters of steep, north-facing rock—was completed in a single day without a bivouac, an unprecedented achievement at the time that quickly became a benchmark in alpine climbing. The route later helped define the VI grade in Willo Welzenbach’s influential difficulty scale, and the Civetta’s northwest face earned the moniker die Wand aller Wände (“the wall of walls”).
The documentary was conceived by Valter Bellenzier, manager of the Tissi mountain hut, and produced by Alessandro Baù, Alessandro Beber, and Confortin, with financial support from the Italian Alpine Club. It combines archival photographs and films with contemporary interviews and a modern repetition of the route, filmed deliberately at a slow pace to document the climb in detail. The on-wall footage was captured during an ascent by two rope teams including Marco Bergamo, Lorenzo Bellenzier, Matteo Pavana, Baù, Beber, and Confortin, with drone footage by Leonardo Vianello from the Tissi hut.
Historical reconstruction draws on the expertise of Baù, Beber, and Manrico Dell’Agnola, as well as testimonies from climbers and hut keepers closely associated with Civetta, among them Luca De Zordo, Valter Bellenzier, and Venturino De Bona. The film also incorporates original writings and images by Solleder, preserved in the archives of the German Alpine Club in Munich and the G. Angelini Foundation, along with material related to landmark winter ascents and solo climbs by later generations of alpinists.
Editing and post-production were handled by Lara Piovesan, Elena Barban, Nicolò Mattia Colombo (The Studio), and Confortin, with an original score by Sebastian Soso. Additional archival material was contributed by several private and institutional collections. The project received support from Montura, the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano, and the Italian Alpine Club’s Agordo section.
