A British explorer on a quest for lost Incan gold is aided by a driven filmmaker but hampered by a psychotic American expatriate guide. File this film in the "stranger than fiction" slot. There's a lot to question in this Fitzcarraldo-meets-Indiana-Jones-story, but director Flamholc's will to persevere is completely genuine. Dragging a film crew deep into the Peruvian jungle (twice), he heads upriver, battling weather, bad omens and skittish guides. The American expat seems entertainingly quirky at first, but his mania soon engulfs the expedition and everything goes topsy turvy. In the end, questions of veracity fall by the wayside, as the viewer is caught up in the more pressing issue of whether they might, despite it all, find the lost city.

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