Description of an Island (Beschreibung einer Insel) 45 years old

This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories. However, the blind trust in the western scientific objective clashes head-on with the values and customs of the natives. Therefore, from the very beginning, the head of the tribe does not cease to ask and express his surprise regarding some foreigners “who have not come to rob his land”.

Credits

Description of an Island Cast

Name	Character
Edda Köchl
Cynthia Beatt

Description of an Island Crew

Name	Department
Clarissa Ambach as Editor. She was 29 (now 74) years old	Editing
Rudolf Thome as Director. He was 39 (now 85) years old	Directing
Rudolf Thome as Producer. He was 39 (now 85) years old	Production
Rudolf Thome as Writer. He was 39 (now 85) years old	Writing
Cynthia Beatt as Director.	Directing
Cynthia Beatt as Producer.	Production
Cynthia Beatt as Writer.	Writing