Our Indians

Our Indians

70 mins | Documentary | Jan. 16, 1995

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.

Our Indians

70 mins | Documentary | Jan. 16, 1995

Our Indians
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.
Producers Usina de Kyno
Original title Yndio do Brasil
Directors Sylvio Back
Writers Sylvio Back

Cast

José Mayer

as Narrator