En Passant (2003)

Name: En Passant
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-11-12T18:32:46+01:00

Documentary | 78 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Mirjam Boelsums and Lony Scharenborg

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En Passant plot

Where the Rhine rises, a train journey also begins. Directors Mirjam Boelsums and Lony Scharenborg traveled with the Rembrandt Express from the Swiss town of Chur to the terminus in Amsterdam. Not only did they film the course and the banks of the majestic Rhine, they also captured the three dimensions of a train journey. First, the passing landscape, with the ever-present river. Second, the random company in the car; for example Heinz-Gerd, whose family was at fault during the war, Maartje, who has just visited her daughter in an asthma clinic, and a lonely woman with her dog ('It may be over with me'). The interviewees talk about their lives off screen, which creates the third element in the film: the traveller's stream of thoughts, alternating with the sounds of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold.