Heading East – Abenteuer TransOst

A young man from a simple suburb of Bremen has a dream: Against the traditional ideas of his Turkish-born family, Savas Coban wants to achieve his goal to make a living as an extreme athlete. And so, he runs 87 ultramarathons in 87 days through crisis-ridden Peru - across the desert and the snow-covered Andes, through the rainforest and man-made barricades.

If you had to give Jonas Deichmann a job description, then "adventurer" would probably be the most appropriate description. He is a world record holder and extreme athlete and had Markus Weinberg accompany him with his camera for his latest project. The plan: Jonas wants to complete the longest triathlon of all time, which should take him around the world. From Munich it should go back to Munich and that both running, swimming and on the bike. The journey begins turbulent and chaotic in the middle of the corona pandemic. Virtually overnight, previously planned travel routes become impassable. Border crossings that used to be easy are now becoming a complicated undertaking. But there are also rays of hope: During his 14-month journey, the “crazy German” became a phenomenon for people, giving them hope again in dark times.