Cinema

Zermatt has only one cinema, but what a cinema! The "Vernissage" is a masterpiece of the Zermatt artist Heinz Julen. Inside the multi-function area in the typical Heinz Julen design with its movable chandeliers, the organisers show the latest blockbusters and classic movies, as well as regularly showing the local films "Whymper's Weg auf's Matterhorn" (Whymper’s path to the Matterhorn) and "Menschen am Matterhorn" (People on the Matterhorn) , which were filmed by August Julen, the father of Heinz Julen, in the Fifties' with a Super 8 camera. August Julen, mountain guide and ski teacher, learned his cinematic skills from one of his ski pupils: Walt Disney. Almost all the films are shown with the original soundtrack and German, English and French sub-titles.