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Jari (1979)

Jari (1979)

Documentary
Release Date: 1979, May 7
Directors: Jorge Bodanzky, Wolf Gauer
Countries: Brazil
Production: Stopfilm
Cast: Evandro Carreira, José Lutzemberger, Modesto da Silveira

Overview:

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon. Jari is the largest known land occupation in the Amazon, and probably the largest in the world, to belong to a single owner, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig.