The Journey to Kafiristan ( Die Reise nach Kafiristan ) ( El viaje a Kafiristan )

The Journey to Kafiristan (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Reise nach Kafiristan
Alternate Title: El viaje a Kafiristan
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min + 200 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Donatello Dubini
Fosco Dubini

Written By:
Donatello Dubini
Fosco Dubini

Actors:
Jeanette Hain ..... Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Nina Petri ..... Ella Maillart
Monika Arnó ..... Dame auf dem Schiff
Vassilios Avgouteas ..... Barkeeper
Jochen Baumert ..... Deutscher 1
Senta Bonneval ..... Dame 2
Christine Buck ..... Dame 3
Matthew Burton ..... Joseph Hackin
André Dahms ..... Barkeeper
Christoph Frass ..... Diener
Len Haddad ..... Frau an der Reeling
Carlheinz Heitmann ..... Deutscher Botschafter
Rania Kurdi ..... Ria Hackin
Thomas Morris ..... Deutscher 2
Madeen Mustafa ..... Zahlmeister
Wolf Pahlke ..... Kapitän
Joachim Polex ..... Herr 2
Wolfgang Rau ..... Bibiothekar
Helene Ruthmann ..... Dame 1
Hebrahin Schischani ..... Peter
Katharina Schütz ..... Ärztin
Othamann Shamayleh ..... Türkischer Grenzbeamter
Anika Unterburg ..... Helferin
Christof Wackernagel ..... Engländer
Oliver Weichmann ..... Helfer

Synopsis:

In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the 30s, is searching for a place of refuge in the Near East to discover her own self. Ella Maillart justifies her restlessness, her need for movement and travel, with a scientific pretext: she would like to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley and make a name for herself with publications on the archaic life of the nomads living there. Both women are on the run, but political developments and their own biographies catch up with them again and again. Their mutual journey through the outside world, which runs from Geneva via the Balkans and Turkey to Persia, is compounded by the inner world of emotions with a tender love story.

Set in a Europe on the brink of war, The Journey to Kafiristan is the story of two women who leave their home in Switzerland to journey together to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1939. Annemarie Schwarzenbach is a Swiss socialite and writer who leaves Geneva with Ella Maillart, an ethnologist. Both women are eager to flee their past and strive towards different goals: Ella is in search of a tribe of nomads who populate the caves of the Kafiristan Valley, while Annemarie, a drug addict is looking for meaning in her life. As they traverse Europe and Afghanistan, the two women are drawn together into a passionate affair, one increasingly fraught with tensions that mirror those of a continent preparing for war. The Journey to Kafiristan was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

The true story of a trip made by writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach and ethnologist Ella Maillart from Switzerland to Afghanistan in 1939.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 18 April, 2010.

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