The animal science students have spent the day observing scat and paw prints in the spruce-clad Beskidy mountains of the Polish Carpathians.

Rescue workers were using helicopters to reach the crash site, in the White Carpathians mountain range that forms the border with the Czech Republic.

His freethinking contemplations take up much of the film, both in Switzerland and in a rustic jaunt “south of the Carpathians.”