Im Auto durch zwei Welten | Across Two Worlds by Car
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1927-1931
by: Clärenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Söderström
Im Auto durch zwei Welten | Across Two Worlds by Car
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1927-1931
by: Clärenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Söderström
Clärenore Stinnes
Im Auto durch zwei Welten | Across Two Worlds by Car
Retrospektive 2018
DEU 1927-1931
by: Clärenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Söderström
Carl-Axel Söderström, Clärenore Stinnes, Native Americans
For this prototype road movie, race car driver Clärenore Stinnes (1901 – 1990) and Swedish cameraman Carl-Axel Söderström covered 46,758 kilometres. Travelling in an Adler sedan and sponsored by companies like Bosch, Aral, Varta, and Continental, they drove through 23 countries and once around the globe – from Frankfurt across the Balkans, to the East, northwards to Siberia, across the Gobi Desert, from China to Japan, then along the Andes to the USA and, finally, by ship from New York back to Europe ... “All travellers film their trips, and so they should!” announced Clärenore Stinnes in 1931. For her, the film was evidence of faraway lands conquered. In her reports from the road, for which she voiced her own commentary, she provides an inventory in chronological order of the impressions of a tourist, natural beauty, cultural monuments, and fleeting encounters with people and animals along the way – “the automobile makes the big world small”. But she also gives us unvarnished images of the dangers and difficulties of the trip. As her cameraman put it, he did “more pushing than filming”.
by
Clärenore Stinnes
Carl-Axel Söderström
Germany 1927-1931
German
Documentary form60’ · Black/White · 35 mm
Clärenore Stinnes (Narrator)
Söderström-Stinnes
Melophon Film GmbH
Film Print: Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin