Common Roads – Pilgrimage And Backpacking In The 21st Century

Common Roads – Pilgern und Backpacking im 21. Jahrhundert

Switzerland, October 2013
FILM, Documentary, 95 min.

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directed by
Tommi Mendel
Written by
Tommi Mendel
Status
In distribution
Website
www.tigertoda.ch/COMMON_ROADS.html

Whereas the label of «pilgrim» is mostly associated with devout persons leaving home for religious motives, young people taking to the road as «backpackers» are generally perceived as pleasure seeking globetrotters. Questioning these stereotypes, Tommi Mendel followed one woman along the Way of St. James through France and Spain and another one along backpacking-routes through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Documenting their experiences and encounters over a period of three years, this film reveals intriguing parallels between what at first glance appear as two different ways of travelling

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World Premiere
October 2013
Original Version
French, English, Swiss-German, Spanish, German (english/spanish subtitles),  colour, ProRes 422, 95 min.
ISAN
0000-0003-A111-0000-I-0000-0000-K
Production
Tigertoda Productions
Producer
Tommi Mendel
directed by
Tommi Mendel
Written by
Tommi Mendel
Cinemato­graphy
Tommi Mendel
Editing
Tommi Mendel
Sound Editing
Tommi Mendel
Location Sound Mix
Tommi Mendel

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Tigertoda Productions

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Switzerland
Tigertoda Productions Distribution

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