Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:ARTE ECO Media NDR
Die lange Fahrt der Graf Goetzen Von Papenburg nach Afrika
50 minHistory,
Documentary
Today the steamer is called Liemba and is probably the oldest regularly operating liner in the world Its original owners named it after the German Africa explorer Graf von Goetzen The ship was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1913 to support German protection troops in the African colonies It made its way from the Ems to Lake Tanganyika in what was then the colony of German East Africa in 5000 crates by ship rail and even on foot There three Papenburg engineers assembled the ship and received a tropical surcharge for it And when the First World War broke out Graf Goetzen even presented itself as a gunboat The film describes the eventful and sometimes involuntarily funny story of this floating museum piece from the perspective of people whose lives were or are fatefully linked to the ship Germans Belgians Britons Tanzanians A piece of colonial history and a journey through recent Tanzanian history maybe a touch of Fitzcarraldo
