A Fleeting Passage to the Orient

Documentary · 2000

Images of Egypt: prolonged tracking shots through the streets of Cairo, cafes, bazars, hotels and gardens, footage of the desert and the sea. Ruth Beckermann is on the trail of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sissi"), who travelled the world restlessly and was in Egypt incognito one hundred years earlier. Since Elisabeth refused to be photographed after the age of 31, she inspires projections and fantasies.

Starring

Josef Aichholzer, Bruno Pisek, Bruno Pisek, Ruth Beckermann, Ruth Beckermann

Director

Ruth Beckermann