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GIRL FIGHTING THROUGH GREEN HELL (1974) Susan Penhaligan

3402DVD

True Story of Juliane Koepche, Stranded in the Amazon

Original German Title: EIN MADCHEN KAMPTF SICH DURCH DIE GRUNE HOLLE
[A Girl Fighting Through Green Hell]
also known as I MIRACOLI ACCADONO ANCORA [Miracle Sill Happen] and AMAZON DEATH TRAP

director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese
starring: Susan Penhaligan · Paul Muller · Graziella Galvani · Clyde Peters · Heinrich Maulhardt

This one is based on the true, horrifying experience of a teenage girl named Juliane Koepcke She was the daughter of two German etymologists who found herself forced to endure the deadly Amazon on her own. She is the only survivor after her airplane explodes and disintegrates over the Amazon jungle. She struggles through the hostile rainforest, fights crocodiles and poisonous snakes, and then becomes infected with Bot flies [Dermatobia Hominis]. The images of Juliane squeezing the larvae out of the pus-filled wounds will live with the audience forever. She is eventually rescued by a group of local woodcutters after her eleven day ordeal.

Director Giuseppe Scotese was an Italian filmmaker who lensed the majority of his projects [mostly documentaries] for Germany production companies. He died from a heart attack at age 85 in 2002.

A German/Italian Film in English language; widescreen format (16:9), uncut 89 minutes, DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include theatrical trailers.

$19.95