The Promises
of Ophir - An African Odyssee
Johann Christoph Steffler leaves Magdeburg at the
beginning of the 18th Century to join the Dutch East
India Company in Amsterdam.
He is sent to the Cape of Good Hope to go into the
Interior in search of the Gold of Ophir.
300 years later an University student finds Steffler's
journal and retraces his steps.
He discovers the Gold of Ophir.
The German Cultural Institute Goethe Institut has
shown the film in 7 African countries.
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