Everyday life in North Korea: pioneers, flag ceremonies, workers’ collectives, an abundance of food and always a song on people’s lips. Perfectly staged for the camera – absurd theatre full of great tragedy.
The towns and villages along the Peruvian section of the Amazon can’t be reached by road. If you can’t afford to take the plane, you travel by cargo boat on the river for days. As a means of transport, the boats are part of an important infrastructure: While the steamships of the “rubber barons” used to travel this route during the brutal rubber boom, cargo boats now bring goods to the communities on the edge of the rain forest.
