The Last Expedition (2024)

Wanda Rutkiewicz is a strong, goal-centered woman who, uninvited, entered the men's world of high-mountain expeditions. She was the first European woman and the first person from Poland to climb Mount Everest. As the first woman in the world and again the first from Poland she climbed K2 - the most difficult of the eight-thousanders,

In the new film by mountain climber and director Eliza Kubarska, whom festival audiences know from the extremely popular "Wall of Shadows", we see Wanda's ups and downs. She disappeared in 1992. Her body was never found. To this day, some say she hid in a Buddhist monastery.

The main narrative axis of the film is Wanda's mysterious audio diary, recorded by the mountaineer half a year before she disappeared. In a philosophical way, she discusses the most important topics related to life, i.e. motherhood, male-female relations and marriage, and also asks questions about the meaning of Himalayan mountaineering and the meaning of life in general. The film also includes interviews with international celebrities of the mountain community: Reinhold Messner, Krzysztof Wielicki and Carlos Carsolio, but also with people privately related to Wanda - sister Janina Fies or friend Marion Feik. The director sets off to the Himalayas in Wanda's footsteps. What will she discover there?

 

Director Eliza Kubarska

Producer Monika Braid

Co-producer Kaspar Winkler

Camera Małgorzata Szyłak, Piotr Rosołowski, Marcin Sauter

 

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