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Journey To Kafiristan tells the epic quest of two women in 1939 who start out, presumably for health and professional reasons, in search of a beautiful valley in Afghanistan, and end up instead on a road trip bursting with eroticism and self-discovery. The true-life story of Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach (a cohort of Thomas Mann's children Erika and Klaus, played by Jeanette Hain) and ethnologist Ella Maillart (played by Nina Petry) unfolds along the often-arduous route from Geneva, Switzerland (via the Balkans and Persia) to Kabul, Afghanistan. At a time when Europe is preparing for World War II, Annemarie is trying to run away from her addiction to morphine and Ella searches for a tribe of nomads living in the legendary Kafiristan Valley, in hopes that their story will enhance her body of published scholarly works. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jeanette Hain
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Nina Petri
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Thomas Morris
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