Summary On a warm summer morning in 1867, the intoxication began. The farm boy Erasmus Jacobs had found a strangely glittering stone in his parents' garden and brought it to his sister to play with. Three years later, a handful of such stones were found on Nicolaas de Beers' Zandfontein farm. Barely two weeks later, the entire area of the South African Transvaal was flooded by over 30,000 knights of fortune. It was the beginning of the legendary diamond rush at the South African Cape. The most productive finds were on the Colesberg Koppie, the location of the later Kimberley Mine. The mound was quickly eroded, and soon shafts had to be driven into the depths. Over the years, the world's largest man-made hole was created - the legendary "Big Hole", 473 metres in diameter and almost 600 metres deep. Today, the Kimberley diamond mine is considered to be the best guarded area on earth. The stories of the workers revolve up to today: stories of monster diamonds, big as chicken eggs. They are legends, because hardly any of the almost 2000 "Minors" will ever see a stone the size of a pebble. GO EAST follows the myth of the South African diamond madness: on land and under water, from the air and in the shafts of what was once the world's largest diamond mine.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Richard Gere The Dalai Lama
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
Summary On a warm summer morning in 1867, the intoxication began. The farm boy Erasmus Jacobs had found a strangely glittering stone in his parents' garden and brought it to his sister to play with. Three years later, a handful of such stones were found on Nicolaas de Beers' Zandfontein farm. Barely two weeks later, the entire area of the South African Transvaal was flooded by over 30,000 knights of fortune. It was the beginning of the legendary diamond rush at the South African Cape. The most productive finds were on the Colesberg Koppie, the location of the later Kimberley Mine. The mound was quickly eroded, and soon shafts had to be driven into the depths. Over the years, the world's largest man-made hole was created - the legendary "Big Hole", 473 metres in diameter and almost 600 metres deep. Today, the Kimberley diamond mine is considered to be the best guarded area on earth. The stories of the workers revolve up to today: stories of monster diamonds, big as chicken eggs. They are legends, because hardly any of the almost 2000 "Minors" will ever see a stone the size of a pebble. GO EAST follows the myth of the South African diamond madness: on land and under water, from the air and in the shafts of what was once the world's largest diamond mine.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
