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Searching for Makunaima

11/19/2020

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1hr 24min

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Documentary

STORY

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Paulo José
  • Tatiana Longo Figueiredo
  • Grande Otelo
  • Jaider Esbell
  • Luiz Carlos Barreto

    Director

  • Rodrigo Séllos

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Brazil

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Paulo José

    Himself

    Tatiana Longo Figueiredo

    Herself

    Grande Otelo

    Archive footage

    Jaider Esbell

    Himself

    Joana Fomm

    Herself

    Heloísa Teixeira

    Herself