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In this film, we relive one of the greatest geographical and human adventures of the nineteenth century: the quest for the sources of the Nile. After four expeditions and thirty years of laboured progress through unforgiving African terrain, the centuries-old mystery of the river which sprang from beyond the desert was finally solved. The quest rapidly acquired legendary status. Geographical curiosity soon gave way to expansionist urges and endless wrengling and controversies. Via the narratives of Speke, Burton, Baker, Stanley and Livingstone, we relive their journeys – the hardships, the illnesses and the disasters — and share in the fanatical determination of these men, the grandeur of whose aims was equalled only by the size of their egos.

France - 2003 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Stéphane Bégoin based on Anne Hugon Camera José Gerel Sound Maurice Ribière Editing Stéphane Bégoin Music Arnaud de Boisfleury, Bernard Becker

Production La Compagnie des Taxi Brousse, 98, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4021 5959 Fax : +33 (0)1 4021 5979 E-mail : info@cie-taxibrousse.com Co-Production ARTE France, Éditions Gallimard

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