Screening: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Das Grosse Spiel and Ella Maillart: Double Journey

DESCRIPTION

Documentary film portraits of the lives of two of the most important Swiss of the twentieth century: director and artist Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, who achieved success way beyond the borders of her Alpine homeland; and writer Ella Maillart, one of the most famous travellers to hail from Switzerland.

The films will be introduced by Clea Wanner, film expert and specialist in Slavic studies (Basel, Switzerland). 


Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Das Grosse Spiel

A portrait of the making of an artist and woman. At the heart of the film is the story of Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch (1917–2003), the daughter of immigrants and professional artists who married Herman Hesse’s son and went on to have three children. An illustrator, reporter, and photographer. Isa was 50 years old when she began to make films. Her experimental films were greeted with acclaim everywhere except her native Switzerland, where in the 1970s she struggled to compete with and gain recognition from her male counterparts.

Screened at the 20th Innsbruck International Film Festival, 2011

Screened at the FrauenFilmFestival, Cologne, 2010
Screened at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival, 2009 

Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Das Grosse Spiel
Director: Anka Schmid
Switzerland, 2009. 52’
16+ 


Ella Maillart: Double Journey

In the summer of 1939, Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe to travel to Asia. Ella hopes to make a film and to help Annemarie overcome her drug addiction. Their plans change when they reach Kabul. Ella travels alone through British India while war rages in Europe. Her texts, film footage, and photographs tell the story of a journey, a film, a year, a woman.

Ella Maillart is one of the most famous women travellers of the twentieth century. An unconventional character who was a sportswoman, reporter, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and author. She was a truly amazing woman who was committed to living life to the fullest.

Screened at the DOKUARTSfilm festival, Berlin, 2016
Screened at the VisionsduRéelfilm festival, Nyon, 2015
Screened at the Cinema Verité film festival, Tehran, 2015.

Ella Maillart: Double Journey
Directors: Mariann Lewinsky, Antonio Bigini     
Switzerland, 2015. 40э
16+

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