Promenade to Syracuse

Promenade to Syracuse is a film essay about a walking-tour in the footsteps of Johann Gottfried Seume´s travel account from 1802. Originating from many month of walking - from the Swiss border down to Sicily, taking along a camera, a book and memory - Promenade to Syracuse grew to a film about the general and specific aspects of travels in which one hopes to encounter the unexpected. It is not a simple film diary, but a distillate of impressions and collected materials which repeatedly break up chronology and geographical order associatively. From winter to summer, from Silicy to the...

Orig. Title
Spaziergang nach Syrakus
Year
1993
Countries
Switzerland, Austria, Germany
Duration
65 min
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
Credits
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