Last Ship Home

1973/74: Kiel students participate with the ‘Peter von Danzig’ in the Whitbread Round The World Race, the first sailing regatta around the world. The only German crew, the only ship without engine. Absolute outsiders, hippies, against navy elites. Stations of their daring voyage: Portsmouth – Cape Town – Sydney – Rio – Portsmouth. At the finish line after eight months, they receive the ‘Best Loser’ award.
The visual language of Last Ship Home is based on the (silent) original Super-8 recordings, while the soundtrack recounts the adventure of the dramatic sailing race with excerpts from the logbook and literary texts by Melville, Conrad, Hölderlin, Homer et al.: Euphoria, tensions on board, dramatic storms and the depression of the calms are spoken and interpreted by well-known German actors such as Carlo Ljubek, Christoph Luser, Thomas Anzenhofer and Oliver Nägele.