In 1908, the greatest event ever regarding motorsport took place. A car race around the world, from New York to Paris. All across the USA, Asia, Siberia, and Europe. Hans Koeppen from Berlin was one of the six rivals that took to the 20,000 kilometer long route.

100 years later, the filmmakers followed the racers’ ’car traces’ for more than two months. On the basis of historical records, they traveled on the same route as these car pioneers and betook a visual journey through time all around the globe. They looked at the world using the car racers’ historical notes and experienced the culture and living with the upcoming technology of the early 20th century from the racers’ point of view. Along the way, the team discovered how differently the dream of a mobilized society developed and how significantly the automobile shaped our world in the last century.

Genre Adventure, History, Road Movie

Category Documentary

Year of Production 2008

Director Wolfgang Ettlich, Andreas Dirr

Screenplay Andreas Dirr

Director of Photography Hans- Albrecht Lusznat

Editor Julia Furch

Music by Dieter Schleip

Producer Wolfgang Ettlich

Production Company MGS Filmproduktion/Munich, in cooperation with BR/Munich, RBB/Potsdam-Babelsberg

Length 87 min Format DigiBeta, color/b&w

Original Version English, Russian, Chinese, German, French

Subtitled Version English

Sound Technology Mono

With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

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