| | |  | BELGIUM | Home » » Masters of the Congo Jungle | | | | | | | Description: | | Produced by Belgian documentary producer Henri Storck, this awe-inspiring film looks at the native tribes and wild animal life found in the Belgian Congo and illustrates "the wisdom and dignity of the Masters of the African jungle in their relationship to nature." Gorillas, birds in mating season, zebras, hippos and lions are featured. Orson Welles and William Warfield narrates. 87 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Jean Desailly, Georges Aminel, Bert Brauns, Herman Niels, William Warfield | | Director:
| Heinz Sielmann | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| Dutch, English, German | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Alpha Video | | Run Time:
| 88 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 29, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Realistic CongoJan 08, 2008
By Michael Kerjman
An interesting work about still wild and not much known part of highland war-turned Eastern Congo, professionally depicting rainforest populous -both locals and a broad range of animals (recently engaged as gigantic gorillas and some already extinguished), is really an example of classic naturalist movies, given then filmmaking technique especially.
Perhaps, it might be placed in line with Legong - Dance of the Virgins ,for instance, for great anthropological value to generations oncoming.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 True Character Of Congo Exposed During Closing Years Of Colonial Period.Jul 07, 2007
By rsoonsa
Here is a large portion from a meritorious cinematic record, produced by Belgian documentarian Henri Storck, and shot over a two year period during 1958/9, of a generally unknown region within the Belgian Congo, one little inscribed through change, an anthropologically seasoned film benefiting from sponsorship given by King Leopold III of Belgium beneath the auspices of that nation's splendid International Scientific Foundation. Eminent zoologist Heinz Sielmann shares both directing and writing responsibilities with Henry Brandt, the pair capably assisted by a team of German cameramen who have compiled a good deal of unusual footage from within the large East African forested section of the erstwhile Belgian colony, subsequently to be designated as Zaire, along with fragments of Rwanda and Burundi. One of two attractively packaged and thoroughly interesting assemblages of nature-in-the-raw flavoured cultural documentation created by Sielmann (the other: VANISHING WILDERNESS), this work depicts complex interplay between indigenous peoples and wildlife, within what is now referred to as the Democratic Republic of Congo, an area concentered by an active volcanic range, jungle and savanna flanking it upon either side, the work featuring special diversion offered to viewers by means of staged folkways of local tribal forest residents. Scenes of unique behaviour on display from jungle fauna are interlaced with those of local natives who strive to establish mystical connections between animals and men; additionally, one of the strongest contributions representative of Sielmann's craft is a result of his 18 months of filming various gorilla family groups, a groundbreaking project that resulted in altering a widespread perception held of this simian from a merely dangerous beast into a very social and rather peaceable creature. The animal sphere also furnishes memorable episodes of such as an aardvark, nocturnally photographed while utilizing its spearlike two foot long tongue to seize and ingest large numbers of termite ants, and a hornbill that interns its mate inside of a tree, by means of mud daubing, for three months following birth of their young, an act of imprisonment symbolically applied within marital customs of regional tribes. An English language version of the film, entitled MASTERS OF THE CONGO JUNGLE (based upon a claim of local natives that "We are the lords of the forest") employs a tandem of stentorian voiced narrators, Orson Welles and William Warfield, providing more than enough basso tone to produce a dramatic accounting of the filmed activity, in spite of a written text by hack Joe Wills that is beleaguered with his regrettable tendency to compose phantasma from rather pedestrian activities of local denizens, although Welles adds welcome humour.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Terrible QualityAug 07, 2009
By Robert in NY
"wldtrav"
The quality of this dvd is so terrible is virtually unwatchable. I dont know how many times it may have been transferred from the original film, but the color, saturation and sharpness are just awful.
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