Looking for the cannibals - O'Hanlon's Heroes
In the second episode of the first season, O'Hanlon travels behind the French explorer Paul du Chaillu (1831 - 1903). Chaillu was the first white person to describe the existence of the gorilla, pygmies and cannibals.
We were in the black center, where on a mat under a sheet we let the sounds of the jungle come through the tent sail, while fourteen black men surrounded us with card games and giggles. And just after midnight, when we thought we were sleeping, the Fang and Pygmies came to our bed to tell us about cannibalism and fetish and white energy for which death was the sacrifice.
We drove for hours, on and on, and we heard the cough of a leopard, shouts of gorillas and walked the elephant path.
We were in Africa. The Africa of Du Chaillu.
In this episode, not for the fainthearted, we will know more about cannibalism, ritual murders, exorcism, witchcraft, ritual slaughter... We carry a cross around our neck, that is a fetish. Every Sunday we drink the blood and we eat the body of God. That is cannibalism. Our faith is also built on a ritual sacrifice.
Redmond O'Hanlon
Original title: Op zoek naar kannibalen
Author and adventurer Redmond O'Hanlon follows in the footsteps of his nineteenth century heroes: explorers who traveled the world and made the wildest discoveries.
Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon
© VPRO December 2011
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Farewell to Russia - From Moscow to Murmansk
After four years in the country, Jelle Brandt Corstius says goodbye to his Russia. He visits people and places that are illustrative of the way he has come to know Russia. Thus, he takes us to the subway in Moscow, which forms a society in itself. With his landlord, Jelle visits a Russian Orthodox mass, a promise from long ago that Jelle finally redeemed. We are following him during a visit to a shelter for poor Russians, located directly across the mayor's house, who does everything he can to get rid of them, because they spoil his view.
In the first series: From Moscow to Magadan, Jelle Brandt Corstius traveled from West to East, focusing on the endless Russian countryside and the villages. In this second series: From Moscow to Murmansk, he travels from North to South along the largest river of Russia: the Volga River. A trip along the relatively unknown cities like Murmansk, Volgograd, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, but also to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Through topics like women in Russia, new censorship, the environmental problem from Russian perspective and the ideological vacuum, a relatively unknown side of Russia is once again exposed.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
Final editor: Gert-Jan Hox
Directed by: Hans Pool
© VPRO August 2012
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