Sonntag, 9. Juni 2019

The Viking Route trilogy - #1 Salt&Earth - #2 Skärgård - #3 The Water is Wide


Adventure Meets History - A docutainment trilogy



Click here to watch "The Water is Wide" on PrimeVideo in the US
Click here to watch "The Water is Wide" on PrimeVideo in the UK


Click here to watch "Skärgård" on PrimeVideo in the US
Click here to watch "Skärgård" on PrimeVideo in the UK


Click here to watch "Salt&Earth" on PrimeVideo in the US
Click here to watch "Salt&Earth" on PrimeVideo in the UK

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Trailer The Water is Wide 
 

Adventure meets history - The Finale! 

In „The Water is Wide“ my journey alone on my sailboat along an old route through Scandinavia’s gorgeous nature comes to an end. Part#3 of the docutainment trilogy "The Viking Route" goes from the Åland-Islands deep inside the Finnish archipelagos and in the Viking museum in Rosala. After 4 weeks of touring with my band at the Baltic coast, my journey on the old route continues to Tallinn. Here, the long and exiting way home begins and leads me through Estonia, Latvia and Gotland. On the way I found many more traces of the Vikings. The movie again shows, beside the travel itself, the emotions of a long time-out and the ingenious navigational methods and the epic mythology of the Vikings. With circumnavigator and Viking expert Burghard Pieske I could get another very interesting person in front of the camera. 

In the Danish National Archives, the description of this old sea route is kept like a treasure. By coincidence Claus Aktoprak got aware of this itinerary and curiosity kicked in. This document, written by monks in Latin script, is one of the oldest and exiting sources about navigating the Baltic sea. It mentions many places which together forming - mostly sheltered by skerries - a sea route along the east coast of Sweden, over the Åland-islands and Southern-Finland to Reval (todays Tallinn). This sailing route, already used by Vikings, the 40-year-old sailboat LA MER auctioned at eBay and a kayak are the ingredients of this new Baltic sea adventure from Claus Aktoprak through the dreamlike archipelagos of Scandinavia.
 
Click here to watch "The Water is Wide" on PrimeVideo in the US
Click here to watch "The Water is Wide" on PrimeVideo in the UK
 
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Trailer Skärgård


The journey continues! 
 
In „Skärgård“ Claus Aktoprak continues to follow an old route through Scandinavia’s gorgeous nature alone on his sailboat. Episode#2 of the docutainment trilogy "The Viking Route" is leading deep into the spectacular world of the Stockholm archipelago in during summer, makes a stopover in the old Viking settlement of Birka in the lake Mälaren end ends on the Åland-Islands. The movie shows, beside the travel itself, the emotions of a long time-out and spotlights – as already in part 1 – the ingenious navigational methods and the epic mythology of the Vikings.
 
In the Danish National Archives, the description of this old sea route is kept like a treasure. By coincidence Claus Aktoprak got aware of this itinerary and curiosity kicked in. This document, written by monks in Latin script, is one of the oldest and exiting sources about navigating the Baltic sea. It mentions many places which together forming - mostly sheltered by skerries - a sea route along the east coast of Sweden, over the Åland-islands and Southern-Finland to Reval (todays Tallinn). This sailing route, already used by Vikings, the 40-year-old sailboat LA MER auctioned at eBay and a kayak are the ingredients of this new Baltic sea adventure from Claus Aktoprak through the dreamlike archipelagos of Scandinavia.
 
Click here to watch "#2 Skärgård" on PrimeVideo in the US
Click here to watch "#2 Skärgård" on PrimeVideo in the UK

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Trailer Salt&Earth

Adventure Meets History - In this docutainment trilogy Claus Aktoprak is sailing single-handed on the traces of history through the dreamlike archipelagos of Sweden, the Åland-islands and Finland to Tallinn in Estonia. Following an ancient itinerary, written by monks in the 13th century, this oldest and exiting source about navigating the Baltic sea is dating back to the age of the Vikings. This sailing route, his 40 year old sailboat LA MER auctioned at eBay and a kayak are the ingredients of this new Baltic sea adventure from Claus Aktoprak through the dreamlike archipelagos of Scandinavia.

In the Danish National Archives, the description of this old sea route is kept like a treasure. By coincidence Claus Aktoprak got aware of this itinerary and curiosity kicked in. This document, written by monks in Latin script, is one of the oldest and exiting sources about navigating the Baltic sea. It mentions many places which together forming - mostly sheltered by skerries - a sea route along the east coast of Sweden, over the Åland-islands and Southern-Finland to Reval (todays Tallinn). This sailing route, already used by Vikings, the 40-year-old sailboat LA MER auctioned at eBay and a kayak are the ingredients of this new Baltic sea adventure from Claus Aktoprak through the dreamlike archipelagos of Scandinavia.

Click here to watch "#1 Salt&Earth" on PrimeVideo in the US
 Click here to watch "#1 Salt&Earth" on PrimeVideo in the UK