The story of Clärenore Stinnes, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a car. In 1927, she started her expedition together with two technicians and the Swedish cameraman Carl-Axel Söderström. The team has 48,000 kilometers ahead of them. From the very beginning, the daring circumnavigation is overshadowed by problems: wars, attacks...
Cinematography
Interweaving Söderström's actual 1927 footage with staged drama.
Acting
Sandra Hüller captures Stinnes's maddening, magnificent determination.
Director
Erica von Moeller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stinnes was a racing driver before this trip—she knew engines better than most men of her era, which was the real scandal.
Söderström's original footage was believed lost for decades; this film resurrected it like a ghost haunting its own story.
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