DAS GEHEIMNIS DES ANDENHEILERS - DIE NATURMEDIZIN DER KALLAWAYA
DAS GEHEIMNIS DES ANDENHEILERS - DIE NATURMEDIZIN DER KALLAWAYA
THOMAS WARTMANN, RICHARD LADKANI
Germany / 2005 / 43'
DAS GEHEIMNIS DES ANDENHEILERS - DIE NATURMEDIZIN DER KALLAWAYA
THOMAS WARTMANN, RICHARD LADKANI
Germany / 2005 / 43'

I guaritori nomadi boliviani del popolo Callawaya sono molto conosciuti in tutta la regione de La Paz. Ancora oggi praticano le loro arti curative sciamaniche, viaggiando attraverso gran parte dell’America Latina. Il loro concetto del mondo, che risale all’era antica pre Inca, è una complessa cosmologia di miti, rituali e profonde conoscenze delle forze curative di piante, animali e minerali. Aurelio, uno degli ultimi guaritori delle Ande, decide di istruire il suo primogenito Cerilo all’arte sciamanica. Non tutti però possiedono il dono di poter divenire un guaritore Callawaya ed è per questo che Cerilo dovrà affrontare un complesso viaggio a Machu Picchu per capire e provare se questo sia il suo destino.
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Directors

THOMAS WARTMANN

Thomas Wartmann (*1953) studied journalism in Munich from 1972-75 and later filmmaking in Los Angeles at the “American Film Institute“. After several engagements as assistant director he travelled as a journalist for major print magazines (GEO, Trans Atlantic, Stern, Tempo, etc.) through Asia, Africa and South America. Since 1994 he has developed, directed and produced more than 35 documentaries. In 2002 he set up the film production company Filmquadrat based in Munich and Cologne together with Thomas Riedelsheimer and Stefan Tolz. With the restructuring of the Filmquadrat platform, he founded Filmquadrat.dok GmbH in September 2007.

RICHARD LADKANI

Austrian started his career as a ( still ) photographer and switched to the Film and TV Workshops in Rockport, Maine (USA) in 1996. He has won several awards for his cinematography. New York Photographers (2000, short) , Escape over the Himalayas - Tibet’s Children on Their Journey Into Exile (2000, short, Tv , co-dir.) Alaska - The Final Frontiere (2001, TV, short), Vietnam - Return to Saigon (2003, co-dir.), The DEvil’s Miner (2005, co-dir.).