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German lawyer and ethnographic filmmaker.
The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will determine the winner.
An early ethnographic film. Made three years after Plessen's "Insel der Dämonen", "Kopfjäger von Borneo" is a half-fictional documentary. The plot involves a love story between a girl and a boy of incompatible social classes.
Wajan, the son of Nudonk, a witch, is beset with difficulties. His mother is in ill favor with the Balinese natives who want to get rid of her, and the hand of Sari, a native chieftain's daughter, will not be his until this is accomplished. How he manages to save his mother and also win Sari is unfolded in the film.
Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons
Ethnological documentary about the life in a remote village in Togo.
