DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
In the words of Robert Frank, “This is about a man whose destiny is -- not to find a destination. . . . A man who fears that he will never find what his imagination compels him to look for, a mystical traveler going by train and by car through . . . language and landscape.” The film was shot entirely on location in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region in September/October 1989.
Biografía del director
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (b. 1924, Zurich) is one of the most well-known and acclaimed photographers in the world. Yet he was also a filmmaker, a fact that comparatively few remember or are even aware of. From 1959 onwards, he put his work as a photographer on hold to focus on cinema, going on to complete more than 25 films over a 50-year career until his death in September 2019. Many of these are regarded as seminal works within the international independent and documentary scene.
Photo credit: Dodo Jin Ming
Finished
Sessions
December
Saturday 19
18:00 h
Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré.
Credits
Language
German, Turkish, English - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Robert Frank
Screenplay
Stephan Balint, Robert Frank
Cinematography
Clemens Steiger
Editing
Jolie Gorchov
Production
Paul Hofmann