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Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey

Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey

★ 8.0/10•1988•Documentary
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The Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey is a series of five documentary films following the decade-long Wanderjahr of the filmmaker/sibling partnership Lorne and Lawrence Blair.

Lawrence Blair · Writer

Lorne Blair · Director

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 13, 1988

Episodes

E158m

Spice Island Saga

The Blair brothers follow the footsteps of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on a Bugis sailboat in search of the bird of paradise to the Aru Islands near New Guinea.

Jun 13, 1988

E258m

Dance of the Warriors

The brothers sail to Komodo and camp amongst the giant carnivorous lizards of Dragon Island. In Bali, long before the tsunami of tourism, they build their first bamboo house. In Sumba Island they witness equestrian warriors performing a veiled form of human sacrifice, and in New Guinea they dwell amongst the Asmat tribe of cannibals and headhunters.

Jun 27, 1988

E358m

East of Krakatoa

In the shadow of Java's active volcanoes the Blairs descend from the erupting crater of Child of Krakatoa into a medieval world of courts, mystical shadow plays, forgers of magical swords, healers with supernatural powers and entire communities ruled by the Goddess of the South Seas.

Jul 4, 1988

E461m

Dream Wanderers of Borneo

The brothers travel for 800 miles through uncharted rainforest, by canoe and on foot to seek out the last of the nomadic Punan Dyaks, the 'dream-wandering' tribe believed to no longer exist.

Jul 18, 1988

E556m

Beyond the Ring of Fire

After his brother's death rites in Bali, Lawrence takes a boatload of friends, including Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, on an adventure from the cannibal swamps of New Guinea back westwards in a retrospective of the changing archipelago.

Jul 25, 1988

Actors

Lawrence Blair

Lawrence Blair

Lorne Blair

Lorne Blair

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