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Jungle Child (2011)

Jungle Child poster
Original title
Dschungelkind
Directed by
Roland Suso Richter
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
2h 11m
Rated
12
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German girl grows up in the jungle of Western Papua after her family moves there to work with a native tribe. The film follows her experiences adapting to a completely different way of life over ten years.

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What happens

Jungle Child (German: Dschungelkind) is a 2011 German drama film directed by Roland Suso Richter. The film is the screen adaptation of the autobiographical bestseller books by Sabine Kuegler which tells her experience living with a native tribe of Western Papua, Indonesia from 1979 to 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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