A Dream of Kabul
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"And that includes my fix"--A Dream of Kabul (1996), 33:20 "'At the Kabul cemetery as well, many flower children's names can be found who died at a young age."--Sholem Stein on the hippie trail documentary A Dream of Kabul (1996) |
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Ein Traum von Kabul (1996, A Dream of Kabul) is a documentary film by Wilma Kiener and Dieter Matzka. In it, a certain Gisela, a heavy user of hash, is interviewed by Johannes Schaaf.
At the Kabul cemetery, the graves of Robert Walter Logan, Wendy Mills, Jacques Meunier and Anthony Bass are shown
Blurb:
They were so very young in 1972. They came from Europe, America and Australia; they had the feeling that their parent's culture had nothing more to offer than the Vietnam war and yet another refrigerator. So they dreamt of Afghanistan, of Kabul. They wanted to live there as peaceful, just people. More than 100,000 youth undertook this journey. More than 20 years later the filmteam visits the lost paradise of the flower-children with the camera. We find: Soldiers, ruins, widows, roses. There is civil war in Afghanistan. This documentary shows a sociological insight into an unknown, but strong movement of the youth at the start of the seventies. Kabul was the first stop on these hippies route of desire. Today the once legendary beautiful city of Kabul lies in ruins. The Kabul of the flower children lives only in their memories.
See also
- John Mohammed Butt
- Across Asia on the Cheap (Lonely Planet, 1979)
- Tony Wheeler
- Hippie trail
- Donovan
- Marc JeanJean, beekeeper
- Band-e Amir National Park
- Margret Kohler
- Christian Burchard
- Werner Kilian
- Bommi Baumann
- Johannes Schaaf
- Heidrun Niemann
- Ernst Perfahl
See also
- The Road to Kathmandu (1977)