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Director(s):
HISSEN (Jorg Daniel)
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Producer(s):
ARTE GEIE, MEDIEN KONTOR Movie GMBH
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2011
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Language(s):
German, English, Arabic, Korean, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
The Panama hat is Ecuador's largest export. The "Rolls-Royce" of hats can cost up to thousands of dollars in the USA and Europe, and is nowadays also produced semi-industrially in the Andean city of Cuenca, where they produce more than 500,000 hats a year.
It takes 3 months just to create a single hat. The fabric, which comes from a certain species of palm tree, is braded so tightly it appears to be made out of linen.