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Goudkoorts - Cursed for Gold - La Fièvre de l'or: French documentary from 2008 about the goldrush in Suriname and French Guyana (subtitled in Dutch language): A new gold rush is sweeping through the Amazon rainforest where scores of women and men hunt for nuggets and specks of gold. But this race for gold is bringing on the destruction of one of the last earthly paradises, the worlds largest tropical forest, the lungs of our planet, where everything and anything can be paid in gold. As a result, a gold ingot cycle has developedwith its batch of insolvents, prostitutes, godfathers, traffickers, whether in French Guiana, Brazil or Surinam...