THE RAFT
synopsis
In the summer of 1973, five men and six women embarked on a 101-day sea adventure on a raft drifting across the Atlantic - an experiment on human behavior initiated by anthropologist Santiago Genovés, exploring the origins of violence, conflict and aggression. Genovés handpicked each member of the crew, mixing religions, cultural backgrounds and nationalities to heighten tension on board and once the journey was under way there was no turning back. Forty years later we will reunite the participants of the expedition to talk about their life-changing experience in an experiment dubbed by the media as 'The Sex Raft' but referred to by Genovés as the 'greatest group experiment of all time' and which left the participants wondering 'what it was all really about'.
international title: | The Raft |
original title: | Flotten |
working title: | The Acali Experiment |
country: | Sweden, Denmark, United States, Germany |
sales agent: | Reservoir Docs |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Marcus Lindeen |
film run: | 97' |
release date: | DK 5/09/2018, SE 21/09/2018, UK 18/01/2019, FR 13/02/2019 |
screenplay: | Marcus Lindeen |
cinematography by: | Måns Månsson |
film editing: | Dominika Daubenbüchel, Alexandra Strauss |
art director: | Simone Grau Roney |
costumes designer: | Pia Aleborg |
music: | Hans Appelqvist |
producer: | Erik Gandini |
co-producer: | Ingmar Trost, Vibeke Vogel |
executive producer: | Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Jesper Kurlandsky |
associate producer: | Juan Pablo Libossart, Vibeke Vogel |
line producer: | Carlson Man Chiu Leung |
production: | Fasad AB |
distributor: | Folkets Bio, Modern Films, UDI - Urban Distribution International |