movie poster for THE EMERALD FOREST

Flicks ID

1158

Cert

12

Running time

110 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

THE EMERALD FOREST (1985)

JOHN BOORMAN

Plot

The seven-year-old son of an American engineer, who is working in the Amazon rainforest on a dam project, is kidnapped by an Amerindian from an isolated tribe known as 'The Invisible People'. The father, convinced the kid is still alive, searches for years, but by the time the two meet, a decade later, the son is fully integrated by the locals and, inevitably, their meeting involves a culture clash. A visually stunning eco-drama.