The gaze of the explorer. Humboldt in Mexico

Our film begins in 1834, when Humboldt, at the age of 65, starts writing in his apartment in Berlin Street, Oranienburg in Germany, all his experience and accumulated knowledge from his travels, in his work "Kosmos". In flashback, mature Humboldt tells how on March 22 of 1803, at the age of 34, a Spanish frigate arrives in Acapulco, Guerrero. He shares his surprise and dazzle by the Mexican port. After visiting Acapulco, like Humboldt's travel, our documentary will continue his journey through Chilpancingo and Taxco until Mexico City, where Humboldt, seduced by the Aztec Calendar, makes a series of studies and archaeological interpretations. During the course of the documentary, we will address the biographical background of Alexander von Humboldt, the son of an original German aristocratic family of Berlin, so that through dialogue, narration, and dramatic action, our film will achieve an interesting structure. The viewer will watch mature Humboldt waking through his library of Berlin and wondering about the meaning of life and nature. In his walks through the Tegel Castle, he will evoke episodes of his life as an explorer. The cinematic journey will follow the route of Humboldt: the mines of Pachuca and Guanajuato and a visit to the Nevado of Toluca, in the Valley of Mexico. After one year traveling, our trip will finish in Veracruz, where he and Bonpland embarked to Cuba and then back to Europe. In Paris, we will shoot the laboratory where Humboldt and Bonpland analyzed the collection of plants they brought from America, and their first publications. We will document how the results of their analysis surprised and dazzled their contemporaries. Talented in the art of storytelling, writer, philosopher and music knowledgeable, Humboldt wrote his memoirs for over 25 years, until May 6th, 1859, when he died while writing the fifth volume of his work "Kosmos" where he expresses his thoughts about his time and the essence of life.