where the river run black ( 1986 97 minute ) and direct by christopher cain and be a beautiful adaptation for the cinema of the award novel lazaro and of david kendall . the film mix religion and mysticism when tell the history of a boy create in the amazonian forest that be take to be educate in an orphanage . the tram start when an american missionary and the idealistic priest mahoney ( the actor peter horton ) that work in the region where the water of the river amazon become black and know a mysterious and sensual woman . a child be bear of this relation and mahoney dy . the boy and lazarus and be play by a 10 year old brazilian boy and alessandro rabelo who carry out the film side by side to the experienced actor charles durning ( priest oreilly ) . educate in the forest and lazarus develop a strange relation with the botos ( dolphin of the amazon river ) . of the wonderful landscape of the amazonian forest to the dirty and hard urban scene and the story of magical realism maintain it attraction due to the delirious photograph of juan ruiz anchia . entirely film in brazil and the film have the participation of some brazilian technician and actor a marcos flaksman and chico diaz and ariel coelho .