ORIENT EXPRESS - An Adventure

Following in the footsteps of Agatha Christie and Detective Poirot, someone is embarking on a grand journey once more: Dennis Gastmann travels the route of the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul - five thousand kilometers, seventeen cities, and countless detours into adventure. A portrait of a continent in upheaval, in motion - wild, intense, and teeming with life.

Gastmann gets caught in the flashbulbs of Paris Fashion Week, stays with a Nonna who cooks for him like her own son, and learns to understand the city on water from a Gondoliera. Gastmann strokes the lions of an oligarch from the Lesser Carpathians - and is almost fed to the tigers. He bathes amidst fire, fog, and laser lights in the world’s largest noodle soup, as the Hungarians joke, and encounters a flower girl in a Bulgarian slum, standing on a mountain of trash.

Gastmann experiences Europe - sometimes on a fast train, sometimes on a slow local line, sometimes by bus through the villages when the tracks end. From the Gare de l’Est to Venice, Trieste to Budapest, Belgrade to Sofia, until the doors of the Orient open before his eyes. And everywhere, he senses the changes of the time. What is the state of our continent, the European dream?