The yellow caravan

Movie
German title	The yellow caravan
Original title	La cloche tibétaine
Country of production	Germany , France
Publishing year	1975
length	360 minutes
Rod
Director	Michel Wyn , Serge Friedman
script	Henri Viard
production	Richard Dupuy
music	Georges Delerue
occupation
Wolfgang Preiss : Georges-Marie Haardt Gilles Béhat : Victor Point Rainer Penkert : Baron Peter Capell : Father Hilliard Franz Rudnick : Father O'Brien Karl-Otto Alberty : Prince Garinsky Coluche : Cecillon Philippe Léotard : Petro Jacqueline Laurent : Haardt's secretary and much more

December 3, 1930 in Washington DC: (from left to right) John Oliver La Gorce, Vice President of the National Geographic Society , Georges-Marie Haardt , organizer and expedition leader, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , President of the National Geographic Society and Maynard Owen Williams, journalist and expedition member.

The yellow caravan , the original French title “La cloche tibétaine” ( The Tibetan Bell ), is a Franco-German television multipart from 1975. It is based on a historical event, the Croisière Jaune , the “Yellow Expedition” that took place between 1931 and took place in 1932. The German first broadcast started on November 3, 1975 on ZDF . In France, the miniseries appeared on TF1 on November 11, 1974 .

action

André Citroën , founder of the automobile company Citroën , had the idea of ​​having an expedition equipped with half-track vehicles manufactured by his company drive 12,000 km in the footsteps of Marco Polo over the so-called Silk Road to Beijing .

Two groups of vehicles set off: one, led by Georges-Marie Haardt and called “Pamir”, is supposed to cross the Himalayas from Beirut , the other, led by Victor Point and called “China”, sets off from Tien Tsin to join him of the first group in Kashgar and then head for the goal together.

consequences

The German version consisted of 13 episodes, the French of 7.

1. The departure
2. The flying priest
3. In wild Afghanistan
4. On the way to Peshawar
5. In the Himalayas
6. The ultimate test
7. Tientsin
8. Mahjong
9. The Panther
10. The Gobi
11. The first radio contact
12. The union of the groups
13. Beijing stage

DVD

The series was released on DVD in 2004 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Hayes / Richard McGinlay / Alys Hayes: Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorized Guide to the Avengers Series 1 , Morrisville: Lulu.com 2017, p. 147. Available here.

Web links

• The yellow caravan in the Internet Movie Database (English)