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Masters of the Congo Jungle | DVD

Starring: Jean Desailly, Georges Aminel, Bert Brauns, Herman Niels, William Warfield
Directed By: Heinz Sielmann, Henry Brandt
Also With: Anders Lembcke (Cinematographer), Fernand Tack (Cinematographer), Georg Schimanski (Cinematographer), Kurt Neubert (Cinematographer), Paul Grupp (Cinematographer), Heinz Sielmann (Writer), Lewis Linzee (Editor), Henri Storck (Producer), José Dutillieu (Producer)

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Binding:

DVD

Rating:

Run Time:

88 minutes

Format:

Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC

Studio:

Alpha Video

Number of Discs:

Aspect Ratio:

1.33:1

Release Date:

March 29, 2005

Sales Rank:

97,313th

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Studio: Gotham (dba Alpha) Release Date: 06/07/2005

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 3 reviews)

Terrible Quality by Robert in NY (New York, NY)

1 Stars
August 07, 2009
The quality of this dvd is so terrible is virtually unwatchable. I dont know how many times it may have been transferred from the original film, but the color, saturation and sharpness are just awful.

Realistic Congo by Michael Kerjman (The Earth)

4 Stars
January 08, 2008
An interesting work about still wild and not much known part of highland war-turned Eastern Congo, professionally depicting rainforest populous -both locals and a broad range of animals (recently engaged as gigantic gorillas and some already extinguished), is really an example of classic naturalist movies, given then filmmaking technique especially. Perhaps, it might be placed in line with Legong - Dance of the Virgins ,for instance, for great anthropological value to generations oncoming.

True Character Of Congo Exposed During Closing Years Of Colonial Period. by Rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California)

3 Stars
July 07, 2007
Here is a large portion from a meritorious cinematic record, produced by Belgian documentarian Henri Storck, and shot over a two year period during 1958/9, of a generally unknown region within the Belgian Congo, one little inscribed through change, an anthropologically seasoned film benefiting from sponsorship given by King Leopold III of Belgium beneath the auspices of that nation's splendid International Scientific Foundation. Eminent zoologist Heinz Sielmann shares both directing and writing responsibilities with Henry Brandt, the pair capably assisted by a team of German cameramen who have compiled a good deal of unusual footage from within the large East African forested section of the erstwhile Belgian colony, subsequently to be designated as Zaire, along with fragments of Rwanda and Burundi. One of two attractively packaged and thoroughly interesting assemblages of nature-in-the-raw flavoured cultural documentation created by Sielmann (the other: VANISHING WILDERNESS), this work depicts complex interplay between indigenous peoples and wildlife, within what is now referred to as the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area concentered by an active volcanic range, jungle and savanna flanking it upon either side, the work featuring special diversion offered to viewers by means of staged folkways of local tribal forest residents. Scenes of unique behaviour on display from jungle fauna are interlaced with those of local natives who strive to establish mystical connections between animals and men; additionally, one of the strongest contributions representative of Sielmann's craft is a result of his 18 months of filming various gorilla family groups, a groundbreaking project that resulted in altering a widespread perception held of this simian from a merely dangerous beast into a very social and rather peaceable creature. The animal sphere also furnishes memorable episodes of such as an aardvark, nocturnally photographed while utilizing its spearlike two foot long tongue to seize and ingest large numbers of termite ants, and a hornbill that interns its mate inside of a tree, by means of mud daubing, for three months following birth of their young, an act of imprisonment symbolically applied within marital customs of regional tribes. An English language version of the film, entitled MASTERS OF THE CONGO JUNGLE (based upon a claim of local natives that "We are the lords of the forest") employs a tandem of stentorian voiced narrators, Orson Welles and William Warfield, providing more than enough basso tone to produce a dramatic accounting of the filmed activity, in spite of a written text by hack Joe Wills that is beleaguered with his regrettable tendency to compose phantasma from rather pedestrian activities of local denizens, although Welles adds welcome humour.

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