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In 1939 the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart embark together on a journey from Geneva to Kabul by car, in order to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley, where legend says that personal healing can be found.
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Fosco Dubini was born in 1954 in Zurich, Switzerland.
He studied drama, film and television at the University of Cologne. He is also a member of the film collective in Zurich, a member of the Cologne Filmhaus and the Filmbüro North Rhine-Westphalie. He is also lecturer at the Ecole supérieure d’art visuel in Geneva since 1991. He received the 1987 Fellowship Award from North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bavarian Film Award 1991. Since 1975, he has been living in Cologne.
Dontatello Dubini was born in 1955 in Zurich, Switzerland.
He studied at the Film Academy in Vienna, Austria and drama, film and television at the University of Cologne. He is one of the founding members of the Cologne Filmhaus and is a member of the filmmakers and film distribution initiative, ‘Der Andere Blick’ (The Other View). In 1987 he received a fellowship award from North Rhein-Westphalia and the Bavarian Film Award in 1990. He has been living in Cologne since 1979.
The documentary films they have made and produced include Das Verschwinden des Ettore Majorana (1986), which won the North Rhein-Westphalia Promotion Award, Klaus Fuchs – Atomspion (1986), which won the Bavarian Film Award, J.K. – Erfahrung im Umgang miet dem eigenen Ich (1991), which won First Prize at he International Festival of Documentary Films in Munich and CEFI Award in Solothurn, and Jean Seberg – American Actress (1995). Their feature film, Ludwig 1881 (1993), won the Film Award in Zurich, the 2nd Prize of the Film Festival de Foz and the Quality Award of the EDI (Switzerland).
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The film is like a magic carpet leading us into the valley of the river Lahr, Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s “valley of good fortune” and Kafiristan, which Ella Maillart never reaches. The film leads us in the valley of Alamut, from where the “Old Man of the Mountain” once sent the Assasins to Europe. The magic carpet brings us to all the foreign cities and secluded valleys, which, enclosed behind high walls or high mountains, have developed their own mysterious laws.
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Production Company: Dubini Filmproduktion
Film Format: 35 mm
Producers: Fosco & Donatello Dubini
Film Duration: 100 Minutes
Co-Producers: Cardo Dubini, Gerard Huisman
Film Length (In Meters): 2900 M
Directors Fosco & Donatello Dubini
Number of Reels: 5
Script Writers Fosco & Donatello Dubini & Barbara Marx
Screen Ratio: 1:1.85
Production Director: Jutta Bürsgens
Speed (Images/Sec): 24 images/second
Editor: Christel Maye
Sound: Dolby SR
Director of Photography Matthias Kälin
Original Language: German
Music Wolfgang Hamm, Madredeus
Original Title: The Journey to Kafiristan, Jan Garbarek/Ustad Fateh Ali Kahn &
Subtitled Language: English & French Musicians from Pakistan
Production Year: 2001
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