Miss Stinnes Motors Round the World

Back in 1927, in the middle of the roaring 20s, a dainty little woman turned the world upside down: Clärenore Stinnes, daughter of an industrial steel baron and enfant terrible of the family, set out to circle the globe in a car. No other woman before her had ever attempted it. Large portions of the world were in the throes of civil war and chaos; there were not even roads most of the way. But Miss Stinnes had always found a way to do whatever she set in her head to do. Together with two mechanics and a cameraman, she departed Frankfurt in an “Adler Standard,” a normal, everyday car. The cameraman was Carl-Axel Söderström, a Swede who had just completed a film with Greta Garbo. The team set out on a 48,000-kilometer journey. The film tells the story of this romantic adventure, in a mix of newly created scenes and black-and-white original footage shot by Söderström during the journey. —mostra.org