Rittlingers Dream / Rittlingerov san

Rittlingers traum

Ou of Competition > The Planet partner: The Earth

The poetic film “Rittlingers Dream” is a philosophical and at the same time scientific reflection about the current revitalisation of the Upper Drau in Carinthia. Herbert Rittlinger was not only a well-known travel writer, but also a progressive thinker and idealist. In his book “The Soon-lost Paradise” he tries to warn people of the imminent devastation to the Drau. In vain … Today - 65 years after Herbert Rittlingers canoe trip on the Drau, his dream and vision of an unobstructed free-flowing glacier Drau has partially become true.

Thomas Miklautsch is founder of New World Spirits, producing films and videos since 1994. In 1995 he realizes his first film project about the windsurf crossing from Australia to Papua New Guinea. The film „Camanchaca“, an trip from the Atacama desert of Northern Chile to the most Southern point of the South American Continent in 1998, was awarded 13 times at international film festivals.