Where was The Eiger Sanction filmed?
1976 film, directed by Clint Eastwood.
- Zurich
The story is set in Switzerland, about 42 miles (68 km) from where it was filmed.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Switzerland; Eiger north face; Kleine Scheidegg; Monument Valley
- Filmed in
- Zurich
- Distance
- About 42 miles (68 km) between Switzerland and the nearest filming location.
About The Eiger Sanction
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- Released
- 1976
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast
- George KennedyJack CassidyVonetta McGeeClint EastwoodThayer DavidReiner SchöneHeidi BrühlBrenda VenusGregory WalcottJean-Pierre Bernard
- Genre
- ActionThriller
- Based on
- The Eiger Sanction
The story
Art professor and mountaineer, Jonathan Hemlock, is a retired government assassin called on to return to work for two more "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings.
While on his flight from Europe, Hemlock meets air stewardess Jemima Brown, unbeknownst to him a C-2 courier, who seduces him.
Hemlock will be the American member of the team, and must kill one of the climbers; Dragon is uncertain of the target's identity other than the man walks with a limp.
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