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THE LAST EXPEDITION

POLISH TITLE: OSTATNIA WYPRAWA

Wanda Rutkiewicz, the most outstanding Polish mountaineer, went missing on 13 May 1992 on her way to Kangchenjunga. Her body was never found. Her mother supposedly said that if Wanda had not come back, it means she decided to join a Buddhist monastery. The film director, Eliza Kubarska, a mountaineer herself, sets out to follow the same route. She talks to witnesses of the past events and confronts them with popular theories of Wanda’s disappearance. Is it possible that she is still alive? The narrator of the documentary is Rutkiewicz herself, who kept an intimate audio diary of her expeditions.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, Switzerland, Nepal, India, Italy, Austria
RUNNING TIME:
95'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Eliza Kubarska
DOP:
Marcin Sauter, Małgorzata Szyłak, Piotr Rosołowski
EDITOR:
Bartosz Pietras

Eliza Kubarska »

Eliza Kubarska specialises in adventure filmmaking. She is an artist and director graduate of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and Wajda School of Film Directing.  Polish exploring alpinist and traveller.  Author of award winning feature documentaries such as:  “What Happened on Pam Island” (aka “Mountain Love Story”) set in Greenland, and “Walking Under Water”, about the sea nomads in Borneo,   winner of Hot Docs Special Jury Prize.  Her recent film is “K2-Touching the sky”.