• Director(s):

    ARNAUD (MARIE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ADR PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2006

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

In this documentary, you will dive into a universe of perceptions and feelings that is still not well understood.

This is the story of a shaman who has exceptional gifts inherited from his mother, and of the dream of a woman director. She has dreamt of the `spirit which possesses the shaman when he performs operations on patients without anesthesia, using only an old knife.
The documentary tells the story of Don Enrique, a shaman who, twice a week, is possessed by a spirit named Hermanito. This phenomenon has been happening for the last 75 years but only in his family.
Don Enrique flees light and the cameras of a relentless media. It took the woman director 8 years to convince him to do this documentary and to film his famous surgeries.
In 20th century Mexico, Don Enrique is a man surrounded by magic, faith, mystery and love.