Helena Zengel zeigt ein eingewickeltes Katzenbaby

The Amazon Kitten

Transamazonia is coming to cinemas at the end of the year. I have put together a few reviews for you and embedded the trailer. But I would like to tell you a story that happened on the set during the shooting.

Ein Katzenbaby schaut aus dem Ausschnitt von Helena Zengel

One day our director Pia Marais arrived with a baby cat. She had found it under a car and brought it with her to the hotel. It must have been born recently and its eyes were still closed. A tiny, miniature animal.

It was clear that we couldn’t just leave it to its fate. The people on the team then took turns to look after the cat. We fed it, wrapped it in cloths (as you would a human baby) and cuddled it.

Unfortunately, it was not only incredibly sweet, but also a bit leaky. It just peed when it felt like it. It happened to me once when I had it under my T-shirt. It sometimes opened its eyes and looked out.

At night it behaved like babies behave. They get hungry when their parents have just fallen asleep. Nothing helped: it had to have the bottle.

I hope we got it through. We then left it in Brazil and didn’t take it with us to Guyana, the second stop on our shoot.


Read the film reviews here

Presently most are in German. I will add English when available.

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