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Journey to Kafiristan
- Director: Donatello Dubini; Fosco Dubini
- Writer: Donatello Dubini; Fosco Dubini
- Producer: Cardo Dubini; Donatello Dubini
CGiii Comment
It's all terribly atmospheric and meaningful.
But...it has got to be the dreariest road movie ever committed to film.
There is no cheer, no sense of adventure...Jesus H. Christ...going to Kafiristan - what a non-adventure this turned out to be.
A visit to a garden centre is more exciting.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Jeanette Hain as Annemarie Schwarzenbach;
Nina Petri as Ella Maillart;
Monika Arnó as Dame auf dem Schiff;
Vassilios Avgouteas as Barkeeper;
Jochen Baumert as Deutscher 1;
Senta Bonneval as Dame 2;
Christine Buck as Dame 3;
Matthew Burton as Joseph Hackin;
André Dahms as Barkeeper;
Christoph Frass as Diener;
Len Haddad as Frau an der Reeling;
Carlheinz Heitmann as Deutscher Botschafter;
Rania Kurdi as Ria Hackin;
Thomas Morris as Deutscher 2;
Madeen Mustafa as Zahlmeister