Swimmers in the Desert

• Movies
• 2001-03-28
• DE
• Released
• 2h 50m
• AT
• Documentary

• 1.0
• 1

Production

Kurt Mayer Film, Epo-Film

Storyline

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...