They met on Friday, getting married secretly on Sunday. They had to run away from their parents' wrath and rather spent their honeymoon among the cannibals in the South Seas, where they lost both their camera and their illusions. At the moment when many people would abandon filming, Martin and Osa Johnson risked their lives to bring the testimony of a diminishing wildlife. The film is an authentic footprint of the era when filming in Africa was more dangerous than lions or malaria. Although they were celebrities admired by Chaplin or British Royal Family, they are forgotten nowadays. This feature documentary discovers the work and legacy of these outstanding pioneer filmmakers in Africa for the first time in a new perspective.

Writer / Jan Svatoš    Story / Jan Svatoš    DoP / Romi Straková    Editor / Katarina Geyerová    Sound / Ladislav Krýsl    Music / Karl Jenkins

Release date / 17 March 2018

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