The film tells the expedition, led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and sponsored by André Citoën, leaving Beirut in Lebanon to rally China through the ancient Silk Road with half-tracks vehicles, between 1931 and 1932..
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Is this for you? If you have a thing for old maps, mechanical failures, and guys in pith helmets looking stressed out, you’ll probably find this fascinating. If you need a movie with a traditional script or even a coherent sense of "fun," you are going to be bored to tears within twenty minutes. It’s a slog, but a weir...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Léon Poirier
Claude Friese-Greene
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"Is this for you? If you have a thing for old maps, mechanical failures, and guys in pith helmets looking stressed out, you’ll probably find this fascinating. If you need a movie with a traditional script or even a coherent sense of "fun," you are going to be bored to tears within twenty minutes. It’s a slog, but a weirdly impressive one. There’s something hypnotic about watching these half-track vehicles crawl across the desert. You spend a lot of time waiting for them to get stuck, which they ..."
