Movie
Swimmers in the Desert
2001 · 110 min
A pensive, essayistic documentary that wanders through memory and history like a desert expedition, rewarding patient viewers with reflective depth.
- Directed by
- Kurt Mayer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- The true life story and adventures of László Almásy, the 'English patient', who crossed Africa in 1929 with the father of filmmaker Kurt Mayer: These events provide the motivation and outline for a critical journey through 'men's domains' in Cairo, London and Vienna. Navigation in the expanses of the memory - the dream of flying, documents from the war and of an unrequited love...
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, identity, isolation, exploration
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Kurt Mayer
- Genres
- Documentary