Morocco - The Road of 1000 Kasbahs (54/59)

Morocco - The Road of 1000 Kasbahs (54/59)

Morocco is a land of contradictions. Modern roads alternate with old caravan routes, stone and gravel deserts with fertile valleys and oases. The film journeys from Marrakesh southwards visiting towns and kasbahs along the way, revealing both the Orient we know from the fairytales and stories, and modern Morocco as it is today.

Le Grand Sud - the Great South - is what Moroccans call the land to the south of the high Atlas Mountains. Here you will find the stone and gravel deserts that transition on the other side of the Algerian border into the sand dunes of the Sahara. Here too are the fertile valleys of Draa and Dadès, the oases with their tens of thousands of date palms, corn fields, and almond, olive and apricot groves. And towns like Telouet, Ouarzazate, Zagora and Erfoud. In Zagora there is to this day a faded sign bearing the words: 52 days to Timbuktu.
Le Grand Sud, the road of 1000 kasbahs, is the Orient that we know from the pictures in our children's books and fairytales. From Marrakesh, the center of trade and the destination for many caravans from the south, our film crew journeys over the Atlas Mountains and stops off at numerous points along the old trade route. We see what is left there of the past and how the people now live.

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