the Detour

the Detour (2000)

Der Umweg

...or how I learned to love Thomas Bernhard

The Detour is about a young woman travelling through Europe in search of herself and the truth of life. It is based on meetings between goatherd Joanna and Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard. Joanna is lost after her boyfriend dumps her at a Women's Relief Centre in Rotterdam. She works in a library and visits the theatre, where she first sees a play by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard's philosophy permeates Joanna's thoughts. When Camille invites her to visit the French Pyrenees, she accepts. On the way, she decides to visit Bernhard in Austria. She attempts to start a relationship with him and thereby finds herself.

Date of release
2000-01-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director
Frouke Fokkema

Casting

Interesting facts

De Omweg is a 2000 Dutch semi-biographical road movie drama film written and directed by Frouke Fokkema and starring Tamar van den Dop, Joachim Bißmeier, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir and Thom Hoffman. Based on Fokkema's play by the same name.

Production

De Omweg is based on Fokkema's debut play that she wrote in 1982, it details her own meeting with her idol, the Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard. Fokkema had been working for ten years to get the adaptation of the ground, initially she had difficulties securing a subsidy from the Austrian government. The film received around 152.000 euro in funding from Eurimages.

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