Marquis de Wavrin, du manoir à la jungle (2017)

• 72%
• 2017
• Dokumentarfilm
• Grace Winter
• Sergio Purini
• Robert de Wavrin

To avoid gefängnis, Marquess Robert von Wavrin (1888-1971) traveled to South America in 1913. The aristocrat swapped Castle Ronsele for the jungle and enjoyed going places " no one had ever been. The photographer and filmmaker became a pioneer of ethnographic cinema. The indigenous people viewed him as a pipe-smoking, sorcerer, but also respected this Belgian who preferred to sleep in an Indian hut rather than a hotel. The makers of MARQUIS DE WARVIN, DES HERRENHAUSES, HAT DIE DSCHUNGEL-have created jahr intriguing film from the eponymous character's expeditions using fascinating archival material, including his beautiful photographs and anthropological filme. The marquess filmed now lost tribes including the Pareci Indians and photographed the headhunting Shuar people ' s Tzantza ritual, which involved a shaman schrumpfen the heads of enemies into wearable totems. This never devolves into mere exoticism, however: De Wavrin was genuinely interested in the indigenous people he documented.