Movie Details
Original Language:English
Ella Maillart Double Journey
Audience Score
StarringIrène Jacob
DirectorsAntonio BiginiMariann Lewinsky
40 minHistory,
Documentary
Plot
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 19031997 one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century Narrated by the voice of a great actress Irène Jacob
