The Raft
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1h 38m
Directed by Marcus Lindeen • Documentary • 2018 • Sweden • English, Swedish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Bjornstam
In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on an unusual sea voyage -- a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and the dynamics of sexual attraction.
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