Gabriel Baur

  • Cynthia Beatt & Rudolf Thome – Beschreibung einer Insel AKA Description of an Island (1979)

    1971-1980Cynthia BeattDocumentaryGermanyRudolf Thome

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    This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories.Read More »

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