Tong Tana 2 - The Lost Paradise

Overview

Bruno Manser the main character of our film where in the end of November 2000, two months after we finished our film reported missing in the jungle - most probably he has been killed. This film is a follow up of a film also made by Charon film in 1989 called Tong Tana - A journey to the heart of Borneo. The first film was about one of the greatest ecological catastrophes of our time, the destruction of the world’s oldest rainforest. It was also a film about one of the last nomadic tribes on earth, the Penans who have lived in the same way for thousands of years. A Swiss, Bruno Manser was living with them. At the time, he had been in the jungle for six years.