Summary Many had been here, adventurers, millionaires, hobby researchers - magically attracted by this Mayan enigma, who ate dog schnitzel, stuffed the heads of deceased relatives and sacrificed the lifeblood of beautiful virgins for breakfast. The ball game, which is so popular with us, also delighted the jungle inhabitants long before our time, only the material of the ball was different. Especially popular were the severed heads of defeated enemies. It sounds terrible, it was probably also, however, with our yardsticks the former Maya universe can be grasped only with difficulty. On Mexico's peninsula Yucatan, home of the former high culture and her today's descendants, one needs a proper portion of confidence in his guardian angel, so the warning of a Campesinós, because the country is a mixture of blood and Tequila. A warning that has unfortunately been justified since 1993. Since the rebel organisation "EZLN", famous - notorious under the popular name "Zapatistas" - has made the area in the Mexican state of Chiapas unsafe, even the "Foreign Office" has warned against travelling to this region. The rebels merely insist on their ancestral land rights: they are Maya, descendants of a people that once belonged to the most highly developed peoples of South America. GO EAST fights its way through the dark rainforest of Selva Lacandon. The rainforest is considered the last retreat of the "Lacandons", one of the probably last true Mayan clans on the border to Guatemala.
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 Many had been here, adventurers, millionaires, hobby researchers - magically attracted by this Mayan enigma, who ate dog schnitzel, stuffed the heads of deceased relatives and sacrificed the lifeblood of beautiful virgins for breakfast. The ball game, which is so popular with us, also delighted the jungle inhabitants long before our time, only the material of the ball was different. Especially popular were the severed heads of defeated enemies. It sounds terrible, it was probably also, however, with our yardsticks the former Maya universe can be grasped only with difficulty. On Mexico's peninsula Yucatan, home of the former high culture and her today's descendants, one needs a proper portion of confidence in his guardian angel, so the warning of a Campesinós, because the country is a mixture of blood and Tequila. A warning that has unfortunately been justified since 1993. Since the rebel organisation "EZLN", famous - notorious under the popular name "Zapatistas" - has made the area in the Mexican state of Chiapas unsafe, even the "Foreign Office" has warned against travelling to this region. The rebels merely insist on their ancestral land rights: they are Maya, descendants of a people that once belonged to the most highly developed peoples of South America. GO EAST fights its way through the dark rainforest of Selva Lacandon. The rainforest is considered the last retreat of the "Lacandons", one of the probably last true Mayan clans on the border to Guatemala.
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
