• Director(s):

    UNGER (Michael)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2019

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Built in 1972, under military dictatorship, the BR-163 road that crosses Brazil from north to south is both an essential artery for the country's economic development and a pathway that threatens to destroy the tropical forest.
 

As a matter of fact, this green lung has been speared through by the 4476 kilometers long BR-163. The forest recycles a fifth of the world's precipitation, absorbs 150 billion tons of carbon and shelters 15% of the world's fauna and flora.
Elected president in January 2019, Jair Bolsonaro – who champions a return to dictatorship – advocates an ultra-liberal economy. A policy designed to promote economic expansion that restores the symbolic value of this north-south road axis. To pay off public debt by becoming a major economic force and, at the same time, safeguard what remains of a huge ecosystem: A worrying reflection of Brazil's paradoxical ambitions.