Description of an Island

Synopsis

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. However, the blind trust in the western scientific objective clashes head-on with the values and customs of the natives. Therefore, from the very beginning, the head of the tribe does not cease to ask and express his surprise regarding some foreigners “who have not come to rob his land”.

Main Cast

Gabrielle Baur

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Cynthia Beatt

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Susanne Christmann

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Edda Köchl

Age : 73 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Rudolf Thome Cynthia Beatt
Crew	Cinematography	Sebastian C. Schroeder
Production	Producer	Rudolf Thome Cynthia Beatt
Writing	Writer	Rudolf Thome Cynthia Beatt
Editing	Editor	Clarissa Ambach
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