The Long Holiday

Overview

After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming his journeys so the afterworld can learn about his experiences. He travels to Kathmandu where he meets buddhist monks and a healer woman who soon is trying to medicate him, to Burkina Faso and Mali onto the edge of the Sahara desert and other places. Everywhere he is collecting experiences that help make the rest of his life bearable.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 30, 2000

Original language

Dutch

Director

Johan van der Keuken

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0233828