Along the Smugglers' Trail

Along the Smugglers' Trail (1990)

10.0 30 min Movie
DocumentaryAdventure

Pierluca Rossi's Lungo La Pista Dei Contrabbandieri (1990) is an adventure documentary about a mountain bike crossing of the 700 km between the towns of Tamarasset and Djanet in the southern Algerian Sahara, from the Hoggar mountain range to the Tassili n'Ajjer. This crossing, supported by a 4x4 truck and a motorcycle, and never before undertaken by bicycle, emphasizes the rediscovered dimension of slowness, similar to the caravans of the Tuareg, in contrast to the unnatural speed of mechanized desert travel in the 1990s, which was considered the norm at the time due to the distorted image provided by the Paris-Dakar Rally and other similar events.

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Cast

Pierluca Rossi Pierluca Rossi Self
Pieli Monica Pieli Monica Self
Thomas Teora Thomas Teora Self
Giovanni Pierluigi De Cesari Giovanni Pierluigi De Cesari Self

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