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Drums and Gods

2001 film by Georg Brintrup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ29592743 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drums and Gods is a 2001 German/Brazilian film directed by Georg Brintrup.

Plot

A Brazilian street boy, Antônio, wakes up early in the morning on the beach of Salvador (Bahia). At sunrise, he is overtaken by strange thoughts: The bible says that God created light even before the sun and the stars. Light, but not sunlight! Maybe the light is the light within our interior enlightenment. Nature's biggest catastrophe is when man began to think. However, before God created light, he said: “Let there be light!” So, before light there was the voice of God.

A sound ... a big bang ... the sound of thunder ...

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Drums and Gods” as 2001 film by Georg Brintrup. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Drums, Gods and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2001 film by Georg Brintrup. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q29592743. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drums and Gods” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.