• Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces

    Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces
    Documentary from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archiveA long-lost Amazon documentary described as “the holy grail of Brazilian silent cinema” has been rediscovered nearly a century after it went missing.Amazonas, Maior Rio do Mundo (Amazon: Longest River in the World)was stolen from the original director, Silvino Santos, shortly after it was made in 1918. Just over a decade later, it had completely disappeared. The film resurfaced earlier this ye

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