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THE F I L M
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In 1988, photo-journalist Alberto Venzago crosses West Africa on an aged Vespa. It breaks down in the town of Ouidah, right in front of a Voodoo cloister. A man appears and offers to help. His name is Mahounon. He is one of the most powerful Voodoo priests in Africa.
Intrigued by this man, Venzago plunges into the mysterious world of African Voodoo. Following Mahounon with his camera for almost ten years, he films secret Voodoo ceremonies and sacrificial rituals, as they have never before been captured on film.
Venzago witnesses an extraordinary story, as Mahounon searches for his successor and trains him for his role as leader of the Mawu-Lissa Voodoo Cult. The Voodoo oracle, or Fa, points the way to an eleven year-old boy who, under Mahounon’s instruction, learns the secrets of Voodoo: black and white magic, rituals, ceremonies and the intricate workings of the Fa.
Out of this unique experience comes MOUNTED BY THE GODS. The film illuminates some of the darkest and most fascinating aspects of Voodoo: a culture full of mysteries – secretive, powerful, entrancing.
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THE C R E W
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M o u n t e d b y t h e G o d s
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Switzerland/Germany 2001
92 Min, color and b/w, 35mm
Director & photographer: ALBERTO VENZAGO
Written by KIT HOPKINS
Edited by JEAN-CLAUDE PIROUÉ
Score: JOCHEN SCHMIDT-HAMBROCK
Additional music: BORIS BLANK (Yello)
CHARLOTTE HUG
PETER SCHERER
Color matching: THOMAS HANSER
Sound editing & mixing: OLAF MIERAU
WOEPF LECHENMAYR
Narrator: RON WILLIAMS
DOUGLAS WILLIAMSON
Executive Producer: WIM WENDERS
Producers: JÜRGEN BIEFANG
ALBERTO VENZAGO
Coproducer: KIT HOPKINS
Associate Producers: THILO RÖSCHEISEN
MARTIN KIRCHER
© Traumwerk Filmproduktion GmbH, 2001
A subsidiary of Das Werk AG
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