Menschen am Matterhorn

August Julen (born 1922) is a film director whose works about the Matterhorn and his home town of Zermatt have made him a local celebrity in Zermatt and the father of Zermatt artist Heinz Julen. August Julen was a mountain farmer and ski instructor and learnt the craft of filmmaking from his most famous pupil, the American film producer Walt Disney. In his films, which were mainly made in the 1950s, August Julen captured in unique images how the lives of the inhabitants of Zermatt are inextricably linked to the mountains. His best-known films are ‘Whymper's Way up the Matterhorn’, ‘People on the Matterhorn’ and ‘The Matterhorn Village’ as well as ‘100 Years of Ski Zermatt’