The world traveler Gwendolin Reisser and Patrick, Allgaier have visited almost four years, the world. Only by foot, hitchhiking and on a ship. The documentary “Far” now shows your experiences. The Film develops into a blockbuster.
Patrick and Gwen with her son – here in the Pyrenees
A truck remains on the way to the Pamir mountains in a river stuck. The axis is broken. Nothing goes more. Gwendolyn and Patrick are sitting next to the truck driver who took her gladly. All the fright is written all over his face. Should be the end of the journey here? The cinema audience cheer with banned. You could hear a pin drop. The Film “Far” also shows people that stay stunned at the roadside, because you just can’t understand why two Germans in the Wind, cold and rain hours and hours waiting in the middle of Nowhere on the next car. So also a farmer on his donkey in the Kazakh desert.
When Gwen, as she calls her Partner Patrick lovingly, the older man then the next destinations of calls, he looks so incredulous that the whole cinema hall yell with Laughter. In other passages of the film audience to tears in the eyes. In Pakistan, the two world travelers, the buildings are ruins, with crumbling hotel labels. In the boxes of a shed post rot cards with beautiful landscape shots. Actually, tourists should come here. It is the 11th came instead. September 2001. Pakistan was the epitome of Terror and death. Many people in the mountainous region of Pakistan, lost their Jobs and their perspective. You tell Gwen and Patrick, how are you today. A goat shepherd, used to be a mountain guide, gives the two gems he has found in the mountains. Just because the Couple is interested for him and his family and took time.
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Gwen and Patrick in Pakistan
A living dream
For nearly four years, Gwen and Patrick had documented their trip with two small cameras. Actually, they wanted to show their families what they had experienced everything. After their return, they cut and set to music of your recordings and gave your Film the title of “Far”. Then happened what nobody had expected. Eleven weeks ago, and the movie is started “Far” in the Freiburg Arthouse cinema “Friedrichsbau”. With three to four performances on the day. Sold out. Ludwig Amman, one of the cinema’s managing Director, can hardly believe it, as even queues form in front of the cash registers. It’s going around. Since the beginning of June, the Film is now running in around 50 cinemas in Germany.
Young and old people just do not want to see, what you don’t trust yourself or what you missed in your life simply. A bold adventure. Just go to without thinking. “We have not really prepared for so long. We were much too curious about this world,” says Gwen, and looks at Patrick. The explains why the two are going in the spring of 2013, only to walk. From Freiburg in the direction of the East. “We didn’t want to fly somewhere, but quite deliberately, step by step, a feeling for the world and their distances to develop. Easy to see how the landscapes, people change.” Gwen adds: “We wanted to have for the human encounters time. Therefore, we needed to move slowly. In addition, an Indian says is not saying that if you travel too fast, the soul.” So off we went hitchhiking. In the evening, after the cooking Outdoor tent.
Even a simple soup on the roadside looked like a feast
Trust will be rewarded
Meanwhile, the two travel from cinema to cinema, and the ideas are always the questions from the audience. And the viewers can not ask for a long time. Very foremost, it is always the cost of such a trip. “We have spent between 25 and 30,000 Euro for almost four years. Since everything was included,” says Gwen, and adds that, at home, they would have needed more. You’ve saved up before the trip and on the journey also worked. “This can’t be all it was safe. You’ve omitted that from the movie?” asks a woman. No, replied Patrick calmly. You didn’t just luck, but rather no bad luck learn, he says. Gwen: “We have had no script. We have just filmed what happened to us. That is why so much truth in there.” The visitors seem to feel it. Some confirm, they would be depressed, according to a news broadcast. According to this Film, but you would feel very comfortable. Gwen and Patrick are happy.
Where it had been the most dangerous, will be asked. “In South America”. Gwen afterwards pushes a tip: it is Important that, if you get attacked, you give it to them all: “This is better then than to play the hero”. “Where did you like it?” want to know a young man. Patrick: “Siberia was great. This Wide and quiet. I would have remained gladly longer.” Gwen: “I found Georgia beautiful. Then, I got homesick. The people there were very warm.” The wonderful encounters with the people of the world to move the audience. Suddenly, someone asks: “Are the people in your experience is rather bad or rather good?” Gwen: “good. Most people want to have something to do with war and Terror, nothing. They just want to live, for their families to be there and be happy.” What was the journey the most Important thing, always want to know all. Trust”,” answers Gwen. “Our trust has always been returned.” Some members of the audience ask no questions, but thank you. “Nice that you shows how similar we are to people around the world.”
Simple education was sufficient Russian or Gestures with the hands and feet, to understand prima
Experiences in Iran
How very young people are starving under restrictive regimes according to contacts in the world, Gwen and Patrick in Iran is clear. There, students offer Couchsurfing, although high penalties. In a pan, the two show a flat, in the many visitors in sleeping bags. Including Sweden, French, English. The parents of the young Iranian, who had invited all these people, are not thrilled. In order to spare him Trouble, Gwen and Patrick are the parents of a gift. Black forest cherry cake in the tin. Had fun all, if the Iranians tried to “black forest cherry cake”.
Gwen and Patrick’s experience in Iran, how many rules, as soon as the doors to the houses are locked. There are parties, there will be dancing. And we drank also. “Some even brew their own beer, by putting the yeast in the soda and a couple of days stand in the corner”, said Gwen. Why the Regime is turning a blind eye to such activities an eye, Gwen has her own theory: “Maybe the want to prevent, that there is a Revolution from below”.
Gwen and Patrick are experiencing questions of faith for friendships play no role
German bureaucracy knows no trip around the world
The return was very emotional, telling both the world traveler. But also bizarre. Because it was, again, the authorities report back. Not of the world, but from Austria. How it happened: At the start of the trip Gwen and Patrick had to log out to the authorities. On the registration office, the official meant at the time, only that he needed to specify a country, in which the two pull. “We will make a trip around the world”, had the two replies. We have no idea which countries we are.” The official regrets. He had to specify a country in the files. Then you enter however, Austria, asked Patrick: “Unfortunately, there are in the bureaucracy is not an Option: Warped due to world travel.”
What remains of the world travel
There’s Bruno, of course. The son of Gwen and Patrick. He was born in Mexico in 2015. Will not cancel the trip. “What a privilege to see as a father and mother for the child to grow up and be every day with him. At home this would not have gone in addition to a Job.” The journey has know the Couple. “We complemented each other great,” Patrick says, and looks Gwen in the eyes. “It was totally Spontaneous, which was able to transform my plans completely, but also wonderful encounters. I tend to work Organization, such as the Visa supply of fun. This has a good fit.” Gwen grins.
What the trip would have been both taught to, want cinema know the audience frequently. Gwen: “When you live for so long out of the backpack, then you realize how little you can be happy. Experiences are more valuable than things. Things are impermanent. The moments, however, we were able to experience, can take this away from us no more.”