Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 100mins Year: 2009 Release date: 14/01/2010 RRP:$ 34.99$ 29.99
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Documentary, World Cinema
There is a man. A man who has swum 35,000 miles of the world’s deadliest waterways. A man that laughs in the face of crocodiles, piranhas & giant anacondas. A man who drinks two bottles of wine a day. A man who has braved the Yangzte, the Danube & the Mississippi and will now do battle with the mighty Amazon. His name is Martin Strel but you can call him “Big River Man”.
53 year old Slovenian Martin Strel holds several Guinness World Records for endurance swimming. He is now preparing for his biggest challenge yet. He will swim the entire length of the Amazon River: all 3,375 miles, or over 5,400 kilometres!
In February 2007 Martin Strel began an insane attempt to be the first person to swim the entire length of the world’s most dangerous river, the Mighty Amazon - and to drink two bottles of red wine a day … even when swimming. Strel took time off from his day job as a flamenco guitar teacher and brought along his friend and amateur river guide, a professional gambler from Wisconsin.
Director John Maringouin set out to make an environmentally aware documentary about this eccentric, larger-than-life swimmer. He ended up journeying deep into the oppressively remote Amazon, following Martin and his team into their own Heart of Darkness as they descend into a nightmare of illness and insanity. Strel’s son Borut narrates this epic journey and charts the perils involved.
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