Summary Voodoo, the word itself associates ritual acts: archaic and sometimes barbaric. The roots of this bizarre cult lie in West Africa, where Niger, Liberia and Benin can be found today. For at least 4,000 years already, that is secured, people follow this religion. "Voodoo" was originally called: "That which cannot be fathomed", "The power which is effective". Religious regulations or even written foundations are unknown. The slave trade brought the cult to South and Central America and to the Caribbean to Cuba. So-called "Ronda Santerias", secret brotherhoods of the plantation slaves, quickly formed on the sugar cane island. The secret societies often still exist today and are now regarded as cultural heritage worth protecting. GO EAST visits a Voodoo Seance in a "Ronda Santeria" in Cuba and looks behind the scenes of this bizarre cult. The basis is an irrevocable law of natural faith, according to which there is no strict separation between life and death, between the "spheres of the visible and the invisible world". Similar to the conservation laws of physics, the universe is seen as a closed system in which nothing disappears. The gods and spirits of the ancestors thus also intervene directly in the lives of human beings.
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 Voodoo, the word itself associates ritual acts: archaic and sometimes barbaric. The roots of this bizarre cult lie in West Africa, where Niger, Liberia and Benin can be found today. For at least 4,000 years already, that is secured, people follow this religion. "Voodoo" was originally called: "That which cannot be fathomed", "The power which is effective". Religious regulations or even written foundations are unknown. The slave trade brought the cult to South and Central America and to the Caribbean to Cuba. So-called "Ronda Santerias", secret brotherhoods of the plantation slaves, quickly formed on the sugar cane island. The secret societies often still exist today and are now regarded as cultural heritage worth protecting. GO EAST visits a Voodoo Seance in a "Ronda Santeria" in Cuba and looks behind the scenes of this bizarre cult. The basis is an irrevocable law of natural faith, according to which there is no strict separation between life and death, between the "spheres of the visible and the invisible world". Similar to the conservation laws of physics, the universe is seen as a closed system in which nothing disappears. The gods and spirits of the ancestors thus also intervene directly in the lives of human beings.
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
