Summaries

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

A Bushman 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 Gods--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a clumsy biologist, a schoolteacher assigned to a small village, and a despotic revolutionary.—Colin Tinto <[email protected]>

Misery is brought to a small group of Bushmen in the Kalahari desert in the form of a Coca-Cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xi encounters Western "civilization", a biologist, a schoolteacher and a tyrannical despot.—Paul Batey

Details

Keywords
  • junk food
  • junk
  • multinational corporation
  • pop
  • pop bottle
Genres
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
Release date Apr 4, 1981
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin South Africa Botswana
Language English Afrikaans Ungwatsi
Filming locations Johannesburg, South Africa
Production companies C.A.T. Films

Box office

Budget $5000000
Gross US & Canada $30031783
Gross worldwide $30031783

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 49m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 2.39 : 1

Synopsis

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