The Australian home video sleeve states that the picture was "filmed on location in Africa". The movie's closing credits declare that "the film was shot on location in Livingstone, Lusaka and in the Kafue National Park, Zambia".
A joint Swedish/Zambia production with Swedish technicians and British and American cast.
This theatrical feature film was made and released about thirty-one years after its source novel of the same name by Doris Lessing was first published in 1950.