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Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

6.8 75 mins Documentary   1994
Marianna Films  
Director(s): Mika Kaurismäki

Release Date: 25 Fri, Mar 1994

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.

Casts of Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

Jim Jarmusch

as Self

Samuel Fuller

as Self

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