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1939. Europe is engulfed by war. Swiss photographer and explorer Ella Maillart travels – together with the Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach – to Afghanistan and India on a legendary journey of exploration and spiritual quest, writing, shooting film footage and taking photographs. The film reveals regions we know today as war zones, seen and described through the clear gaze and determined voice of an andventurous heroine of the 20th century.
VorfilmNomades afghans. Une séance avec Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart · CH 1992 · F/d · 37 min
Short filmIn June 1992 «Nomades afghans», a montage of the black and white footage shot in 1939-1940, was screened in Lausanne, and Ella Maillart commented live during the projection, as she used to do in the past. This reconstruction brings you into the presence of the Ella Maillart of 1992, then aged 89 and perfectly informed about current politics.