Summary Rio de Janeiro is the headquarters of one of South America's largest gemstone traders: H. Stern, once a poor scoundrel who made his fortune in the Amazon. Today Stern controls a gemstone empire with 150 branches worldwide. Most of his stones come from the Amazon Basin, Brazil's raw materials chamber. The systematic exploitation of the jungle began with the rubber boom in the 19th century. Gold, oil, wood, ore and precious stones followed. Today, the world's largest forest area is facing a catastrophe. It still drives the "insane" from the hands of a Carlos Fermin Fitzcarrald into the mud castles of the north and to the bottom of the Amazon. The "Campo Formosa" an emerald - claim in the state of Mato Grosso resembles a crater landscape, dotted with countless molehills. For almost 20 years, adventurers have been rummaging the earth in the hope of the "Bonanza" of their lives. The vernacular calls them "garimpeiros": former farm workers, uprooted people and gamblers, men who live like driftwood.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Richard Gere The Dalai Lama
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions
Summary Rio de Janeiro is the headquarters of one of South America's largest gemstone traders: H. Stern, once a poor scoundrel who made his fortune in the Amazon. Today Stern controls a gemstone empire with 150 branches worldwide. Most of his stones come from the Amazon Basin, Brazil's raw materials chamber. The systematic exploitation of the jungle began with the rubber boom in the 19th century. Gold, oil, wood, ore and precious stones followed. Today, the world's largest forest area is facing a catastrophe. It still drives the "insane" from the hands of a Carlos Fermin Fitzcarrald into the mud castles of the north and to the bottom of the Amazon. The "Campo Formosa" an emerald - claim in the state of Mato Grosso resembles a crater landscape, dotted with countless molehills. For almost 20 years, adventurers have been rummaging the earth in the hope of the "Bonanza" of their lives. The vernacular calls them "garimpeiros": former farm workers, uprooted people and gamblers, men who live like driftwood.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7169/414839
Language : German
Production companies : Martin Thoma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Haberci Productions