Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon |
| Original title | Manaos |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain , Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa |
| script | Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa Carlos Vasallo |
| production | Carlos Vasallo |
| music |
Franco Bixio Fabio Frizzi Vince Tempera |
| camera | Alejandro Ulloa |
| cut |
Otello Colangeli Sigfrido García Roger Macrosky |
| occupation | |
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Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon (original title: Manaos , alternative title: Slaves of Hell , also Hundred Days to Manaos ) is a Spanish-Italian-Mexican adventure film from 1978 . Directed by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa , who also wrote the script together with Juan Antonio Porto and Carlos Vasallo .
The German premiere was on March 20, 1981. The film ran on May 22, 1982 under the name Hundert Tage bis Manaos on GDR television .
action
Early 20th century in the Brazilian Amazon . Powerful rubber farmers fear for their monopoly on the high-yielding goods and are trying by all means to prevent the export of seeds abroad.
Claudia is attacked by the violent unscrupulous rubber producer Don Sierra during her honeymoon. Her husband, a former plantation owner, is brutally murdered while she is humiliated, raped and taken to the workers of the rubber plantations near Manaus along with other women as a willless object of pleasure . Here Indios and whites work under unworthy, almost slave-like conditions under the bondage of cruel farmers. With the help of the captured women, one tries to get those men to do more, which apparently works.
On such a plantation in the Brazilian rainforest, where violence, torture and murder are the order of the day, two white workers - Arquimedes and Howard - work like slaves. Together, the two plan an arduous escape, which, in addition to the native Ramiro, will also be joined by Claudia, the woman who has been abused several times. The plan works and their multi-day escape through the jungle with Ramiro as their guide begins. Their destination: the Napo , a tributary of the Amazon in Ecuador 700 miles away .
The sparsely equipped quartet, whose capture will soon be subject to a bounty, is pursued by the captors of Don Sierra. The refugees fight bravely and, despite the many dangers, roam the jungle until after five months they reach the border with Ecuador, where there is an armed conflict with border guards, as a result of which Ramiro is shot and killed. Contrary to their original intention to leave Brazil, they return to the rubber plantations and organize an uprising among the tortured slaves by force of arms. The number of like-minded people rose by leaps and bounds, and the angry crowd managed to kill one of the greatest farmers.
At the end of the film, Arquimedes and Howard attack Don Sierra, in the meantime they leave Claudia with a friend of the society. In a bloody fight in which Howard falls victim, the remaining Arquimedes finally succeeds in killing his former tormentor along with a large load of rubber seeds, which he wanted to smuggle out of the country secretly.
useful information
The film is based on the novel "Manaos" by the Spanish writer Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa .
Reviews
"Raw colportage with rough black-and-white drawing of the figures."
Web links
- Manaus - The Slavers of the Amazon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions VMP unchecked - X-New contrast program from Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manaos - The slave drivers from the Amazon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .