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The tower of Babel. Surviving the end of the world / directed by José Manuel Novoa ; produced by Óscar Portillo ; written and edited by Juan Novoa.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher: [Madrid] : Explora Films, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (51 min.): sound, colorContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Torre de Babel. Episode 4, Surviving the end of the world
  • Surviving the end of the world
Uniform titles:
  • Tower of Babel (Motion picture). Surviving the end of the world.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematographers, Juan Ramón Ibáñez, Magoo Moro, Mario Alonso; editor, Rubén García López; music, Santi Vega.
Narrator: Stephen Hughes.Summary: The indigenous communities of Paraguay experienced their own particular end of the world during the Chaco War. The Bolivian and Paraguayan armies fought this territorial war on the traditional lands of ethnic groups such as the Ayoreo, the Maká, the Nivaclé, and the Lengua. Since that time, these cultures have tried to survive outside their traditional territories and in truly precarious living conditions. To the south, near the Brazilian border, the lumber industry cut down the forests and cornered a group of Aché natives, who 30 years ago suffered the traumatic experience of confronting the white man. Fortunately, they survived, but ever since then they have been struggling to integrate into a society that doesn't want them. In Bahia Negra, near the Paraguay River, a tribe of Ishir Indians has taken the opposite path. After suffering the tyranny of an unscrupulous group of Evangelists for many years, they decided to expel them and return to their old way of life. In this episode of The Tower of Babel we will travel throughout Paraguay to get to know the numerous indigenous cultures that are trying to form part of Paraguayan society without renouncing their cultural heritage. -- Explora Films webpage
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Narrator: Stephen Hughes.

Cinematographers, Juan Ramón Ibáñez, Magoo Moro, Mario Alonso; editor, Rubén García López; music, Santi Vega.

The indigenous communities of Paraguay experienced their own particular end of the world during the Chaco War. The Bolivian and Paraguayan armies fought this territorial war on the traditional lands of ethnic groups such as the Ayoreo, the Maká, the Nivaclé, and the Lengua. Since that time, these cultures have tried to survive outside their traditional territories and in truly precarious living conditions. To the south, near the Brazilian border, the lumber industry cut down the forests and cornered a group of Aché natives, who 30 years ago suffered the traumatic experience of confronting the white man. Fortunately, they survived, but ever since then they have been struggling to integrate into a society that doesn't want them. In Bahia Negra, near the Paraguay River, a tribe of Ishir Indians has taken the opposite path. After suffering the tyranny of an unscrupulous group of Evangelists for many years, they decided to expel them and return to their old way of life. In this episode of The Tower of Babel we will travel throughout Paraguay to get to know the numerous indigenous cultures that are trying to form part of Paraguayan society without renouncing their cultural heritage. -- Explora Films webpage

In English. Also available in Spanish with title: La torre de Babel. Sobrevivir al fin del mundo.

Online resource; title from opening/closing credits (Digitalia Film Library, viewed August 28, 2015).

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