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Transatlantique, Queen Elizabeth 2

Name: Transatlantique, Queen Elizabeth 2
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1992
Duration: 57 min

Transatlantic: Queen Elizabeth 2

Five days, three thousand people and one ocean, on board the last of the great transatlantic liners.

Year: 1992
Runtime: 57 min
Countries: Belgium
Languages: English, French
Production: Nota Bene
Availability: On request

A frame from Transatlantique, Queen Elizabeth 2

Southampton to New York on the Queen Elizabeth 2, the last liner still running the Atlantic. Passengers dance, dine and drift, while a crew of a thousand keeps the floating town running below decks. In the middle of the ocean, Rob Rombout studies what privacy, work and leisure look like when nobody can leave.

Note: Released 1992; shown at the Netherlands Film Festival in 1993.

From the film and the shoot

Frames and crew photographs from Rob’s archive.

Screenings

2 recorded

1993Netherlands Film Festival, UtrechtSelection

1994Videobrasil, São PauloRetrospective

Credits

Direction: Rob Rombout
Script: Rob Rombout, Jean-Philippe Laroche
Image: Louis-Philippe Capelle
Sound: Paul Heymans
Editing: Adriana Moreira de Oliveira
Music: Jean-Christophe Renaud
Production: Nota Bene

Elsewhere in the work

1990 · 59 minNord-ExpressParis to Moscow in 47 hours, in 1990, on a train that has outlived two world wars and now the Wall.1994 · 52 minL'Île noireEighty men and one woman, a steel island in the North Sea, and the routines that keep them sane.

Cite this pageRombout, Rob. Transatlantique, Queen Elizabeth 2. 1992. https://www.robrombout.com/en/films/1992-transatlantique-queen-elizabeth-2/. Last verified 10 October 2026.