Presented here without subtitles, it can downloaded from the site and subtitles are available here to add yourself.
The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in 1909 and American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.
The film blends visions, dreams, memories and the conventional story of a journey into a hallucinatory account of how human societies exist in the world- one against the frame of a luxuriant and cruel nature, the other against a cruel and powerful colonialism. The world of spiritual integrity grows dim and men and women lose the connection with their dreams, and nature is destroyed as a result. This film is an important document for the evolution of human consciousness in a time of great ignorance and misunderstanding.
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