The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American,
His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe.
Synopsis
Bruce Olson felt called by God to leave behind the soft comforts of 1960’s America to spread the gospel of Jesus to a highly dangerous, confrontational, stone-age tribe the Motilones. Despite being shot with poison arrows, loneliness, language deficiencies, Bruce plodded forward, eventually learning 15 native languages. Bruce helped to set up schools, medical clinics and co-ops, where the people raised cocoa plants to sell. Ultimately, through education, dialogue, and visits to Bogota and beyond, Bruce helped them prepare for the challenges posed by the rapidly encroaching outside world, all while preserving their customs and cultural identity.
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A visiting missionary speaks at young Bruce’s church and he is instantly repelled by the man. Bruce opines that missionaries are weird, dress funny, prone to exaggeration, needy and probably just can’t make it in “the real world.” Yet Bruce stays after the service to pepper the missionary with questions - and ultimately takes the missionary’s no-holds barred challenge personally. Bruce taught himself Latin and Greek and had read the bible multiple times. Bruce applies at various missions’ organizations, only to be told he needs more schooling. Bruce’s family urges him to reconsider, but his mind is set. No one wants him to go, and no one welcomes him upon his arrival. After learning Spanish in Venezuela, he heads into the jungle and encounters the Yuko who surround him and shoot him full of arrows. He survives, learns the Yuko language, only to find out they’re not the Motilone. The dangerous Yuko refuse to take Bruce to the Motilone territory out of fear of the much fiercer Motilone warriors.
So Bruce walks from tribe to tribe until a small group of terrified Yuko agree to take him.
Bruce nearly dies many times from jungle diseases, snakes, and arrows. Trial after trial, Bruce’s faith takes him deeper into the jungles of Colombia than any white man had ever ventured, and eventually lands him in the log houses and hearts of the Bari. Bruce brought them medicine, education, a voice in Colombian congress, and most importantly, Jesus.
PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE
Sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide
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“BRUCHKO,” is an unforgettable adventurous coming of age story, which pushes one's faith to the limit. A boy becomes a man through the hero’s journey into hell.
The book “BRUCHKO,” by Bruce Olson, is an inspiration of faith and an example of intense zeal to many and has sold over 300,000 copies and still sells about 5,000 copies a year. It is used in some mission’s organizations as required reading for young missionaries in training.
Beginning in a small town in Minnesota, and ending in the jungles of Colombia in 1960, we look into the heart of man and God’s strange plans, exploring themes of extreme evangelism, deep brotherly love and friendship. STAND BY ME and Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE wonderfully explore themes of friendship under duress and the ever present question of “where is God when I need him?”
Bruce, when alone, injured, surrounded by natural threats is faced with questions like, “is God actually calling me to these dangerous and unlikeable people?” Bruce’s “calling” and sense of purpose trumps all dangers and loneliness and disease.
A Note from Producer Matt Kuiper
This is a movie for those who have and have not read the book. It’s a movie for this and future generations. It’s a Call To Action for the young and an exciting story for the old. This movie says there is a real God. And God has amazing plans for your life. It says, don’t stop because of religion. Don’t stop following Jesus because of fear. Don’t stop even if there’s an actual poison arrow in your thigh.
We know what it's like to have a best friend, or want one. And we know what it's like to be lonely. Aside from battling the dangers of bows and arrows, snakes and scorpions, Bruce battled loneliness. First, Bruce found Jesus and later, he found Bobby. Bobby, a Colombian Native, was like family; he became closer than a brother to Bruce. He had a great sense of humor, honor, and commitment. Amongst his people, the Bari, each person has a secret name and a public name. Everyone can know your public name, and some Bari never tell anyone their secret name. It's one of the most precious things a Bari can own. Bobby told Bruce his secret name, which was akin to being blood brothers. This is a an amazing story of friendship and faith, Jesus' love, brotherly love, and even romantic love. A story chock full of fear and danger, thrills and adventure, and we can't wait for you to see it on the big screen!
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