NOMAD'S LAND

By Gaël METROZ

PLAYTIME - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2008

The young director, Gaël Métroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier.

    • Year of production
    • 2008
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gaël METROZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Gérard MONIER (Tipi'mages), Francine LUSSER (Tipi'mages)
    • Synopsis
    • The young director, Gaël Métroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land of the Fifties recounted in l'Usage du Monde: Iran in crises, Pakistan shaken by tribal violence's, Taliban, civil war in Sri Lanka. This world, Bouvier had the usage, seem to have disappeared under the veil of time. Disappointed the director leaves the main road traced by the famous Topolino and continues on the small path with the nomads. In creating his own route, Gaël Métroz reveals the writer's philosophy of travel.