Ella Maillart: Double Journey
MovieTitle | Ella Maillart: Double Journey |
User score | 7.7 |
Release date | Apr 19, 2015 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Mariann Lewinsky , Antonio Bigini |
Production country | US |
Run time | 40 min. |
Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off drugs. In Kabul she realizes to have lost all certainties and faces the difficult search for herself. For a year she travels alone in the British Indies, a keen observer of the colonial system, living from moment to moment while war ravages Europe. Letters, diaries, film footage and photographs reveal a portrait of Ella Maillart (1903-1997), one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century. Narrated by the voice of a great actress, Irène Jacob.