The Raft (movie)
Het vlot- Production country: Netherlands
- Producer: George Sluizer
- Production companies: Sluizer Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 2/1/1970
- Run time: 29 min.
Movie description
An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including two children. The raft is the means of transport since time immemorial and the journey to the town of Teresina lasts about a month. Life in slow-motion, with fleeting encounters along the banks. When the family arrives in Teresina, the merchandise is sold, the raft dismanteld, branch by branch, leaf by leaf.