🎬 Documentary

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

⭐ 6.0/10 2000 1h 33m Dir. Laurie Gwen Shapiro

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In 1955, Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. He had no guide, no map, and only the vaguest of instructions: Keep the river on your right. A year later Schneebaum emerged from the jungle…naked, covered in body paint, and a modern-day cannibal. Titled after Schneebaum’s 1969 cult classic memoir about his formative experiences living in the Amazon, Keep The River On Your Right is the extraordinary stranger-than-fiction story of Schneebaum’s return to the jungle, 45 years after his original visit, to reunite with the very tribesmen he loved and who gave him nightmares for nearly half a century. A deeply affecting and searing portrait, sibling filmmakers Laurie and David Shapiro capture a man in utter conflict, a fearless adventurer, and one of the most charming, enigmatic, and perplexing men ever captured on screen.

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Year
2000
Runtime
1h 33m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 6.0/10
Votes
21
Genre
Documentary
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Laurie Gwen Shapiro 👤 Tobias Schneebaum 👤 Norman Mailer 👤 Michael Nelson Rockefeller
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Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale has a runtime of 1h 33m (1 hour and 33 minutes).
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale was directed by Laurie Gwen Shapiro and released in 2000.
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale is a Documentary film (2000).
The cast of Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale includes Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Michael Nelson Rockefeller.
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale has a TMDB rating of 6.0/10 based on 21 votes.

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