i saw this movie at a college film festival back in the 70 i have be wait forever for this movie to come out on video ( finally it out ) . it be make in brazil and so i assume that be why it hadn not make it to video yet . i have be check video store for the past 15 year wait for this outstanding movie to come out . it be one of my all time favorite but be warn and it be weird and like werner herzog weird it weirdness stem from it super realism . the movie be base on a true incident back a few century ago and in pre colonial time and when european be first encounter the tribe in the amazon . a white man be mistake by a savage tribe of cannibal a their enemy and so they intend to kill him . before they dispatch him and though and they make him part of their tribe ( their custom ) . the entire movie be like watch a national geographic documentary a he become an accepted member of their tribe . that it . cosmic plotline . no . intense insight into the variety of human life . definitely . oh yeah . be warn . this film have definite nudity this be not some hollywood schlock flick about noble savage . this film tell it like it be ( re read above represent national geographic and super realism ) .