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Original title: Baraka
Year: 1992
Running time: 100 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ron Fricke
Screenwriter: Ron Fricke, Genevieve Nicholas, Mark Magidsen, Bob Green
Cast: Documentary
Music: Various
Cinematography: Ron Fricke
Producer: Magidson Films
Genre: Documentary | Nature. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: Baraka has no plot, no characters, and no dialogue. The film is a series of images from different perspectives - both human and otherwise - from various places and cultures from across the globe. Baraka was shot in 70 mm in 24 countries on six continents. A world beyond words.

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#10 Best Documentaries in the history of film

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"Critics and audiences have struggled to find the right words to describe the effect Baraka has on them for 16 years; but it seems appropriate to be speechless after seeing this wordless masterpiece of cinema."

Andrew L. Urban: Urbancinefile
"A paralyzingly beautiful documentary with a global vision: an odyssey through landscape and time, which is an attempt to capture the essence of life."

TV Guide
"Words can't do justice to the visual masterpiece Baraka."

Variety Staff: Variety
"You are left weighing the dense, stirring beauty of these images with the crushing banality of what's actually being expressed through them"

Mike McCahill: The Guardian
"If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be 'Baraka'" (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"While it's easy to look at these often beautiful moving postcards, Fricke presents locations without identifying them, so most viewers will quickly find themselves lost and overwhelmed."

David Parkinson: Radio Times
"Less than magical, Fricke's mystical tour quickly gets bogged down in its own self-proclaimed grandeur. An eco-stew. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Angie Errigo: Empire
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5 My Favorite Documentaries (304)

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