Il paese del sesso selvaggio
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Movie Poster for Il paese del sesso selvaggio
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
| Produced by | Ovidio G. Assonitis Stenio Fiorentini Giorgio Carlo Rossi Marcello Soffiantini |
| Written by |
Francesco Barilli Massimo D'Avak |
| Starring |
Ivan Rassimov Me Me Lai Pratitsak Singhara Sullalewan Suxantat Ong Ard |
| Music by | Daniele Patucchi |
| Cinematography | Riccardo Pallottini |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Distributed by | Media Blasters (USA) |
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93 minutes |
| Language |
Italian Burmese |
| Budget | Unknown |
Original title: Il paese del sesso selvaggio (translation: The Country of Savage Sex), better known as Man From Deep River in North America, or Deep River Savages in Europe, also known as Sacrifice!, is a 1972 Italian exploitation film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It is perhaps best known for popularizing the cannibal genre of Italian exploitation cinema during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Lenzi was probably trying to imitate the content of notorious Mondo cinema, which had gained considerable Grindhouse popularity since Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara made Mondo Cane in 1962, even though this film is fictional. Like Man from Deep River, Mondo films often focus on exotic customs and locations, graphic violence, and animal cruelty.
The film was mainly inspired by A Man Called Horse, which also featured a white man who is incorporated into a tribe that originally held him captive. The title The Man from Deep River is even supposed to echo the title of A Man Called Horse. It is ironic that a film created to imitate the famous Richard Harris western would wind up being the template for what would later become the Italian cannibal film genre.
The story focuses on a British photographer, John Bradley, who is sent into the Thai rain forest to take wildlife photographs. While on assignment, a tribe native to the area takes him captive.
Bradley starts in Bangkok, taking photos and seeing the sights, until he arrives at a boxing match with a date. His date grows increasingly bored and disgruntled by Bradley's refusal to leave, until she finally walks out on him, which doesn't bother him in the slightest. An unidentified man sees her leave, and presumably upset over the disrespect shown towards the young woman, he follows Bradley to a bar where he confronts him with a knife. After a brief struggle, Bradley manages to turn the weapon against the man and kills him. Even though he killed in self-defense, Bradley immediately flees the scene.
The next day, John begins his trip deep into the rain forest. He rents a canoe and a guide to take him down a nearby river. Still fearing that he'll be captured by the authorities, he pays off the man to not mention their encounter. After rowing a ways and taking several wildlife photos, Bradley's guide, Tuan, mentions his concerns about traveling so far down river, which he reports as being dangerous. John agrees to head back after one more day of traveling. John falls asleep, and when he awakes, he finds Tuan dead with an arrow in his throat. Before he has any chance to escape, a native tribe captures him in a net and carries him to their village. The chief, Luhanà, is told that the group has captured a large fish-man. At the village, Bradley is hung in the net from a high pole, where a group of young children hit him with bamboo stalks. While hanging, Bradley witnesses the execution of two war criminals by his captive tribe. The tribe is at war with another, even more primitive tribe of cannibals, the Kuru. Two of the cannibals have their tongues cut off in the village center. Bradley reacts with disgust, labeling the tribe as murderers.
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