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Transamazonia

Frankreich Deutschland Schweiz Taiwan Brasilien Malaysia 2023/2024 Spielfilm

After surviving a plane crash in the Amazon, young Rebecca is miraculously rescued—an Indigenous man carries her for days through the jungle to a logging site, where she is discovered and given medical care. She grows up in the rainforest with her father, a Christian missionary, who later presents her as a teenage miracle healer within his evangelical community. However, the seemingly peaceful life she knows begins to unravel when the local Iruaté people protest against the illegal deforestation by European settlers, blocking access to a bridge. At the same time, Rebecca is asked to heal the sick wife of the sawmill owner, who promises to withdraw from the area in return. As Rebecca becomes increasingly drawn to the Indigenous youth, she eventually chooses to side with them, finding herself caught in the middle of a growing conflict. Her world is further shaken when a nurse who knew Rebecca’s mother reveals truths that challenge everything she believed.  

The story is inspired by the real-life experience of German-Peruvian biologist Juliane Koepcke, who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian rainforest in 1971. 

Credits

Director

  • Pia Marais

Screenplay

  • Pia Marais
  • Willem Droste

Director of photography

  • Mathieu de Montgrand

Editing

  • Matthieu Laclau
  • Yann-Shan Tsai

Music

  • Lim Giong

Cast

  • Helena Zengel
    Rebecca
  • Jeremy Xido
    Lawrence Byrne
  • Sabine Timoteo
    Denise
  • Hamã Luciano
    Silas
  • Rômulo Braga
    Alves
  • Philipp Lavra
    Junior Alves
  • Sérgio Sartório
    John
  • Pirá Assurini
    Pirá Iruaté
  • João Victor Xavante
    Junger indigener Mann
  • Kamya Assurini
    Frau Iruaté

Production company

  • Cinéma Defacto (Paris)
  • Gaijin (FR)
  • Aldabra Films (Paris)

Producer

  • Sophie Erbs
  • Tom Dercourt
  • Pierrick Baudouin
  • Murielle Thierrin
  • Claudia Steffen
  • Christoph Friedel
  • Jean-Marc Fröhle
  • Stefano Centini
  • Chuti Chang
  • Camilo Cavalcanti

Alle Credits

Director

  • Pia Marais

Screenplay

  • Pia Marais
  • Willem Droste

Director of photography

  • Mathieu de Montgrand

Production design

  • Petra Barchi

Make-up artist

  • Julia Nietlispach

Costume design

  • Chiara Minchio

Editing

  • Matthieu Laclau
  • Yann-Shan Tsai

Sound design

  • Andreas Hildebrandt

Sound

  • Dana Farzanehpour
  • Frank Cheng

Special effects

  • ArChin Yen

Casting

  • Isabella Odoffin
  • Cláudio Barros
  • Gabriel Bortolini
  • Ila Goroto

Music

  • Lim Giong

Cast

  • Helena Zengel
    Rebecca
  • Jeremy Xido
    Lawrence Byrne
  • Sabine Timoteo
    Denise
  • Hamã Luciano
    Silas
  • Rômulo Braga
    Alves
  • Philipp Lavra
    Junior Alves
  • Sérgio Sartório
    John
  • Pirá Assurini
    Pirá Iruaté
  • João Victor Xavante
    Junger indigener Mann
  • Kamya Assurini
    Frau Iruaté
  • Iwinaiwa Assurini

Production company

  • Cinéma Defacto (Paris)
  • Gaijin (FR)
  • Aldabra Films (Paris)

in co-production with

  • Pandora Film Produktion GmbH (Köln)
  • Point Productions (Genf)
  • Volos Films (Taipei)
  • Vitamine C (Guadeloupe)
  • O Par (BR)
  • Cabocla Filmes (Belém)
  • Cinema Inutile (FR)
  • Tigresa & Matizar Filmes (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Moonduckling Films (Paris)
  • Jazzy Pictures (Shah Alam)

in association with

  • Die indigene Bevölkerungsgruppe der Assurinis (BR) (Associate Producer)
  • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)/Arte (Köln)
  • RTS Radio Télévision Suisse (Genf)

Producer

  • Sophie Erbs
  • Tom Dercourt
  • Pierrick Baudouin
  • Murielle Thierrin
  • Claudia Steffen
  • Christoph Friedel
  • Jean-Marc Fröhle
  • Stefano Centini
  • Chuti Chang
  • Camilo Cavalcanti
  • Viviane Mendonça
  • Jorane Castro
  • Pia Marais
  • Alex C. Lo
  • Guilherme Cezar Coelho
  • Fernando Loureiro

Co-Producer

  • Christine Vial-Collet
  • Thomas Jaubert

Executive producer

  • Annette Fausbøll
  • Jean-Alexandre Luciani
  • Joanne Goh
  • Keong Low

Original distributor

  • Pandora Film GmbH & Co. Verleih KG (Aschaffenburg)

Funding

  • Deutsch-Französische Förderkommission (DE FR)
  • Angoa-Agicoa (Paris)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Bundesamt für Kultur (Bern)
  • Cinéforom (CH)
  • MEDIA Creative Europe (Brüssel)

Shoot

    • Amazonas Regenwald von Brasilien und Französisch-Guayana
Duration:
112 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby 5.1
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.02.2025, 267043, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CH): August 2024, Locarno, IFF - Concorso Internazionale;
Erstaufführung (DE): 27.09.2024, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 15.05.2025

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Transamazonia

Versions

Original

Duration:
112 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby 5.1
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.02.2025, 267043, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CH): August 2024, Locarno, IFF - Concorso Internazionale;
Erstaufführung (DE): 27.09.2024, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 15.05.2025

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/transamazonia_ac5450a3b99f42b4a46992fcd13f55d4