Making "Uirapuru": a musical quest in the Brazilian Rain Forest

Sam Zebba
2010 Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas  
Sixty years ago the author, an Israeli film student at the University of California, Los Angeles, set out to make a film based on a Brazilian Indian legend which had been set to music by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). Filming was carried out among Urubú-Ka'apor Indians in the state of Maranhão. In Belém, capital of Pará, he was joined by German anthropologist Peter Paul Hilbert (1914-1989) of the Goeldi Museum on an adventurous and creative expedition, culminating in a prize-winning
more » ... tary film and a life-long friendship between the two.
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