Kino Lorber – Death in the garden

*** An English version will follow ***

La mort en ce Jardin (Death in the garden)

Fuyant une révolte dans une cité minière de l’Amazonie, un groupe de six personnes, mené par Shark, un aventurier Européen, s’enfonce dans la jungle et ses dangers. Mais le danger se trouve aussi au sein du groupe lorsque l’un d’entre eux, devenu fou, abattra deux personnes.

Death in the garden (French with optional English subtitles)

When a settlement of illegal diamond miners is broken up by soldiers, in revenge they attack and burn down the army headquarters in the nearest town. Next day, when reinforcements arrive, most of the surviving miners are rounded up to be shot. On a river boat, five people escape the carnage: a pacifist miner, his deaf-mute daughter, the local madame he wants to marry, a Catholic priest, and a wanted adventurer. When pursued by the army, they take to the jungle. There, the struggle for survival starts eroding their identities and in most cases their will to live. The adventurer becomes the resourceful leader, while the miner goes out of his mind and kills both the madame and the priest. After killing the miner, only the adventurer and the girl are left to find freedom together.