The Journey to Kafiristan
2001, German. Directed by Fosco Dubini & Donatello Dubini.
In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the 30s, is searching for a place of refuge in the Near East to discover her own self. Ella Maillart justifies her restlessness, her need for movement and travel, with a scientific pretext: she would like to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley and make a name for herself with publications on the archaic life of the nomads living there. Both women are on the run, but political developments and their own biographies catch up with them again and again. Their mutual journey through the outside world, which runs from Geneva via the Balkans and Turkey to Persia, is compounded by the inner world of emotions with a tender love story.
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 27 September 2001
- Original title
- Die Reise nach Kafiristan
- Country
- Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland
- Written by
- Barbara Marx, Fosco Dubini
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The Journey to Kafiristan runs 101 minutes (1h 41m).
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The Journey to Kafiristan isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 September 2001. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Journey to Kafiristan?
The Journey to Kafiristan (2001) was directed by Fosco Dubini and Donatello Dubini and stars Jeanette Hain, Nina Petri, Thomas Morris.