The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)
Directed by Stephan Komandarev
After a car crash wipes his memory, a young man raised in Germany is taken by his Bulgarian grandfather on a tandem bicycle back to the country his family fled in the 1980s.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Provincial town, 1980s--:--:--BulgariaInferred
Pressured to inform on his father-in-law, Vasko decides to flee communist Bulgaria with his wife and son.
- 2Refugee camp--:--:--ItalyStated on screen
The family waits for a long time in a bleak refugee camp.
- 3New life in Germany--:--:--GermanyStated on screen
Smugglers take them on to Germany, where they settle.
- 4Hospital, 2007--:--:--GermanyInferred
After his parents die in an autobahn crash, Bai Dan visits amnesiac Sashko in hospital and teaches him backgammon.
- 5Home town--:--:--BulgariaInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 4,890 km
- Places
- 3
- Countries
- 3
- Stops
- 5
- Not shown: 3,421 km
- Bicycle: 1,469 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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