Ella Maillart: Double Journey

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 19, 2015

Original language

English

Cast

Irène Jacob

Director

Antonio Bigini,Mariann Lewinsky

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt4670628