''Resan'' (Swedish for ''The Journey'') is a 1987
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
by
Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents,
and structured around the theme of
nuclear weapons
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
, military spending and poverty. Ordinary people are asked about their awareness of these issues.
With a running time of fourteen hours and thirty-three minutes, ''Resan'' is the second-
longest non-experimental film ever made after ''
Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo''. It was screened at the
1987 Festival of Festivals as well as the "International Forum for New Cinema" of the
Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
in 1987, but has rarely been seen since. In February 2007, it was screened at the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Cinema (
FICCO
''Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival'', or ''FICCO'' (''Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo'') for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival founded by film producers Michel Lipkes and Paula Astorga in Februar ...
) as part of a retrospective on Peter Watkins. Between April 25 and May 1, 2007, all nineteen parts of the film were screened at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna, Austria as part of a retrospective on Peter Watkins..
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Brief reviewat the ''
Chicago Reader
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information about the filmfrom Peter Watkins' website
Films directed by Peter Watkins
Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons
1987 films
1987 documentary films
Australian documentary films
Canadian documentary films
Danish documentary films
Finnish documentary films
Italian documentary films
Japanese documentary films
New Zealand documentary films
Soviet documentary films
Swedish documentary films
Norwegian documentary films
1980s Canadian films
1980s Japanese films
1980s Italian films
1980s Swedish films
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