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Cast
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| Marius Weyers | ... | ||
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Sandra Prinsloo | ... | |
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N!xau | ... | |
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Louw Verwey | ... | |
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Michael Thys | ... | |
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Nic De Jager | ... | |
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Fanyana H. Sidumo | ... | |
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Joe Seakatsie | ... | |
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Brian O'Shaughnessy | ... | |
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Vera Blacker | ... | |
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Ken Gampu | ... | |
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Paddy O'Byrne | ... |
Narrator
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Jamie Uys | ... | |
Storyline
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
Plot Summary | Add SynopsisTaglines:
It's PRIMITIVE! . . . It's POIGNANT! . . . It's PERTURBING! but it will make you laugh, cheer and shout! See more »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
(Norway) See more »Also Known As:
Az istenek a fejükre estek See more »Filming Locations:
South AfricaBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$8,188 (USA) (15 July 1984) (1 Screen)Gross:
$30,031,783 (USA) (1986)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
In the final scenes of the film, Xi throws the bottle over a cliff. This scene was filmed at God's Window, a site located at the edge of the escarpment between the Highveld and Lowveld, in the province of Mpumalanga, South Africa. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: When the school teacher is being welcomed by the village, the villagers are shown singing, but the song dubbed onto the soundtrack is a song of farewell (the title of the Xhosa language song, "Shosholoza", translates into "go forward"). See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: It looks like a paradise, but it is in fact the most treacherous desert in the world... the Kalahari. After the short rainy season, there are many waterholes, and even rivers. But after a few weeks, the water sinks away into the deep Kalahari sand, the waterholes dry up...
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