At a mining community in Brazil, a hired miner tries to steal a diamond and is caught. The police chief is in serious financial trouble and decides to steal the rock himself, and flee with his pregnant wife to a big city. He takes the original thief as his guide through the region's rivers and wild country. Another woman blackmails the police chief into taking her with them as well. They are chased by the mine's owner and a man of partial indigenous origin whom he uses as a guide.
Simple-minded yet watchable adventure. It is technically well made, but I can't assess the cinematography properly since the copy I saw was of inferior quality -- it was dark and plagued with interlacing. Ethnographical documentary footage depicting indigenous people is edited into the film to give the illusion of a seamless narrative at some points.
Rating: 33
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