Return to the lost Eden

Return to the lost Eden

Tagasi kadunud Eedenisse
Entry 21-9 | Switzerland Italy | 2019 | 54’ | Language: English Italian Indonesian | Subtitles: English
Original title: Ritorno all’eden perduto

"Following a boisterous journey on a local rundown fishing boat I landed on the long yearned Siberut island in the Mentawai archipelago, 90 miles west of Sumatra, Indonesia." In 1969 Adriano Zecca, then 24 years old, wrote brief notes on his travel journal on his incredible adventure in one of the most mysterious and less known places on earth. This extraordinary experience, shared with an almost uncontaminated indigenous community, marked the beginning of his job as a documentarian. In July 2019, after half a century of travels, reportages, and documentaries, fulfilling a career which led him to the most remote parts of the world, the Italian director is left with a haunting question from the past: What happened to the small island of Siberut and to the "flower people" inhabiting it? This documentary is an attempt to answer that question but, above all, it is the story of an emotional return journey and of an existential balancing of a lifetime. Fifty years on Adriano Zecca traces back his first trip together with his family; his wife Magda, Spanish painter, and his two sons Eloy and Raúl, a cinematographer and an anthropologist respectively.

Director Adriano Zecca  | Cinematography  Eloy Zecca | Editing  Adriano Zecca | Producer  Michael Beltrami, Eloy Zecca | Production Company  RSI - Swiss Italian Television | Original Title  Ritorno all’eden perduto
Ritorno all’eden perduto
Ritorno all’eden perduto
Ritorno all’eden perduto
Director Adriano Zecca
Cinematography Eloy Zecca
Editing Adriano Zecca
Producer Michael Beltrami, Eloy Zecca
Production Company RSI - Swiss Italian Television
Original Title Ritorno all’eden perduto
Entry Number 21-9
Country of Production
Switzerland Italy
Year of Production 2019
Running Time 54’
Language: English Italian Indonesian
Subtitles: English

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