This travelogue documentary includes scenes in Norway, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden: Norwegian infantry trains on skis, a cable railway in Bergen travels to a mountaintop, an old-fashioned Norwegian wedding is shown, a beautiful trip through fjords, a polar bear hunt and bass fishing at Lofoten, footage of an experimental flight of the giant Dornier Do-X seaplane, many sites in Copenhagen, the Kronberg Castle where Shakespeare's HAMLET is set, the statue honoring Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson, located in his birthplace of Odense, scenes of Danish storks, the making of wooden shoes, Rabild National Park, a German celebration of the evacuation of the Rhineland by the French with Paul Von Hindenburg (president of the Weimar Republic) addressing the crowd, a giant zeppelin, flax production, and Bavarian folk dances are shown, the many waterways in Stockholm, Sweden, a harvest festival, as well as scenes of Laplander life..
Alexander Singelow
United States
Is this for you? If you enjoy watching silent, grainy footage of people making wooden shoes or watching Norwegian infantry try not to fall over on skis, you’ll probably find Nomadie weirdly hypnotic. If you need a story, or a narrator to tell you why we’re looking at a statue of Hans Christian Andersen for three minute...
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Alexander Singelow
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"Is this for you? If you enjoy watching silent, grainy footage of people making wooden shoes or watching Norwegian infantry try not to fall over on skis, you’ll probably find Nomadie weirdly hypnotic. If you need a story, or a narrator to tell you why we’re looking at a statue of Hans Christian Andersen for three minutes, you are going to be bored to tears within the first act. This isn’t a documentary in the modern sense. It feels more like someone emptied their attic of 16mm film reels and jus..."
