Name: Flame and the Fire
Released: 1966
Duration: 1 min 20 s
Cast: Pierre Dominique Gaisseau

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Feb 1966

Premiere Information

not available

Distribution Company

Continental Distributing, Inc.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 20m

Synopsis

Filmed in the remote jungles and outlands of Brazil, Australia, Africa, and New Guinea, this film depicts social and religious practices among little-known tribes. Foremost among these are: the Gourd Men of New Guinea, who wear gourds on their genitals as symbols of both tribal and agricultural fertility; the Kukukuku, also of New Guinea, a cannibalistic tribe who smoke-cure their dead; the Suza tribe of Brazil, whose married males wear wooden discs as large as 6 inches in diameter in their lower lips and also make a concoction similar to DDT to drug and catch fish; and the Wailbri tribe of Australia. Also shown are African Pygmies, the towering Masai, and the vanishing Auen tribe of the Kalahari Desert.