Farewell

In 1929, against the backdrop of the interwar period, journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay traveled as the first female passenger on a round-the-world Zeppelin flight.

Constructed entirely of archive footage, Farewell is the story of English journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay. In August of 1929, two months before the stock market crash would plunge the world into the Great Depression, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst added Drummond-Hay to the passenger list of the Graf Zeppelin as the only female. This impressive airship would be the very first to make a voyage around the world. For this prestigious project, a symbol of hope and progress, Hearst was looking for someone who wanted to write about the trip "from a female perspective." Drummond-Hay was ecstatic: "I shall write for him as if my life depended on it." Under the supervision of her colleague and ex-boyfriend Karl Henry von Wiegand, she spent 21 days reporting on the flight, which started in New York and went to Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and ended back in the Big Apple. Needless to say, it was a trip that did not go off completely without a hitch. Using Drummond-Hay's diary entries and newspaper articles as a basis, the film sketches a picture of the occasionally tough journey and a changing Europe. Drummond-Hay makes the viewer part of her impressions of the devastated continent. She tells of the funeral wreaths thrown from the Zeppelin over Verdun, riots in Berlin, and the rise of Communism in Russia, struggling with feelings for her ex-boyfriend all the while.　两次大战间的1929年，记者格雷斯•德拉蒙德•海茵作为首位女乘客，参加了“齐柏林伯爵号”飞艇的环球旅行。
　　
　　《永别》一片取材历史文献影像，讲述英国女记者格雷斯•德拉蒙德•海茵的故事。1929年8月，在证交所崩盘引发全球大萧条之前的两个月，“齐柏林伯爵号” 飞船将进行首次环球航行，报业巨头威廉•鲁道夫•赫斯特把德拉蒙德•海茵作为唯一一名女乘客加入了的乘客名单，期待她能够从女性视角对这次珍贵的旅行进行报道。德拉蒙德•海茵为此兴奋无比：“我会把这次工作当做我的生活所依，努力为他写作。”飞船从纽约起航，途经腓特烈港、东京、洛杉矶，最后回到纽约。在同事兼前男友卡尔•亨利•凡•维艾格的陪伴下，德拉蒙德•海茵花了21天来报道此次飞行。当然，此次旅行并非完全一帆风顺，德拉蒙德•海茵的日记以及报纸上的文章帮助本片还原了那次并不顺利的旅程，以及正在变化的欧洲——柏林的大骚动、俄国共产主义的崛起、一路上与前男友的情感纠葛……
　　

Best Dutch Documentary Award Nomination at IDFA (2009)阿姆斯特丹纪录片电影节“荷兰纪录片”奖提名影片(2009)

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