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Where the River Runs Black is a 1986 film directed by Christopher Cain and starring Charles Durning, Peter Horton, and Dana Delany. The screenplay was written by Neal Jimenez and Peter Silverman, based on the novel Lazaro by David Kendall .
Where the River Runs Black: Directed by Christopher Cain. With Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Divana Brandão. An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.
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- 1986-09-19
The young son of a missionary and a native Amazonian woman, Lazaro (Alessandro Rabelo) grows up deep within the jungle, raised by his mother after his father...
“Where the River Runs Black” takes place along an isolated Brazilian river system, where the streams penetrate the heart of darkness. The Indian tribes that inhabit that world tell of a freshwater dolphin that transforms itself into a beautiful woman.
Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. After making love to a beautiful Indian woman in the jungles of Brazil, a young Catholic priest returning to his mission is killed by a water snake. She raises their child, a boy, near the place where the river runs black.
Where the River Runs Black, directed by Christopher Cain, ambitiously plunges into the depths of the Amazon, seeking to marry mystical elements with a coming-of-age story. Sadly, it surfaces as a cinematic oddity that’s as murky and directionless as the river it's named after.
Where the River Runs Black. 1986 · 1 hr 37 min. PG. Drama. After witnessing a murder, an orphaned boy raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knew his father. Subtitles: English.
