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...or how I learned to love Thomas Bernhard
The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Women's Relief Centre in Rotterdam. She works in a library and visits the theatre, where she first sees a play by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard's philosophy permeates Joanna's thoughts. When Camille invites her to visit the French Pyrenees, she accepts. On the way, she decides to visit Bernhard in Austria. She attempts to start a relationship with him and thereby finds herself.Read moreLess
The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Women's Relief Centre in Rotterdam. She works in a library and visits the theatre, where she first sees a play by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard's philosophy permeates Joanna's thoughts. When Camille invites her to visit the French Pyrenees, she accepts. On the way, she decides to visit Bernhard in Austria. She attempts to start a relationship with him and thereby finds herself.
The story
The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Women's Relief Centre in Rotterdam. She works in a library and visits the theatre, where she first sees a play by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard's philosophy permeates Joanna's thoughts. When Camille invites her to visit the French Pyrenees, she accepts. On the way, she decides to visit Bernhard in Austria. She attempts to start a relationship with him and thereby finds herself.
Cast & crew
Tamar van den DopJoanna
Joachim BißmeierThomas Bernhard
Thom HoffmanCamille Kleber
Therese AffolterAnna
Inge RosenbergCast
Jan DecleirVader van Joanna
Marlies HeuerCast
Peer MasciniLuc de Koning
Halina ReijnCast
Liz SnoijinkDokter
Dimme TreurnietCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Frouke Fokkema
- Writer
- Frouke Fokkema
- Director of Photography
- Wolfgang Simon
- Editor
- René Wiegmans
- Producer
- Erich Lackner
- Producer
- Matthijs van Heijningen
- Producer
- Wulff-Ernst Hoffer
- Editor
- August Verschueren