The Long Holiday (2000)
After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming his journeys so the afterworld can learn about his experiences. He travels to Kathmandu where he meets buddhist monks and a healer woman who soon is trying to medicate him, to Burkina Faso and Mali onto the edge of the Sahara desert and other places. Everywhere he is collecting experiences that help make the rest of his life bearable.
- Released
- 2000-01-30
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Johan van der Keuken
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 8 votes
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