But by the time Ghinsberg was finally able to travel, Charrière had passed away on 29 July 1973, and the tribes Ghinsberg was interested in discovering had been "civilized". Ghinsberg had briefly returned from an Africa to Mexico trip and he worked several jobs to save the money to travel to South America. In the 1970’s Yossi became determined to find Charrière and ask for his blessing to follow in his footsteps by traveling to the Amazon rainforest. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. He wrote the novel, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana on Devil’s Island. Charrière was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts, who always denied his guilt. Yossi had been inspired by the book Papillon by Henri Charrière. I was naive, bright-eyed, everything is possible”. He wanted to explore the world, “I wanted an adventure. In November 1981, Yossi Ghinsberg, 22, had just finished his military training at the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.) and had served three years in the navy. Everything you see is on a smaller scale than what really happened.” The story behind the Amazon group Vanished with no trace for 40 years.Īs Yossi himself said “I have to tell you, usually movies are bigger than life. The true story behind the film is shocking and heroic, which left two men surviving a terrible ordeal and two others lost in the Bolivian rainforest forever. The film was based on Yossi’s 2006 book, “Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure, Danger and Survival”. It was directed by Greg McLean and starred Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame as Ghinsberg. In 2017, the movie, Jungle, based on Yossi Ghinsberg's 1981 journey into the Amazon rainforest was released.
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