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.
Director Jamie Uys searched for three months in the Kalahari desert of South Africa, to find the perfect Sho (N!xau), who in real life had no contact with modern civilization to play the role of Xixo.
Xixo's frequent look of bewilderment was genuine, since actor N!xau, an actual Sho, was seeing many of these things for the very first time.
Didn't receive a major U.S. release until 1984.
Sandra Prinsloo had a strong Afrikaans accent in the original soundtrack and her voice was dubbed by an American actress for the US release of the film.
Biggest foreign box office hit during its release.
Was banned shortly after release in Trinidad and Tobago following protests from pressure groups that claimed it was racist.
The film was made by a South African director and was financed with South African government funds, but was released as a Botswanan film because there was a hard international embargo against South Africa.
Steyn: What do you know about women?
Mpudi: I got seven wives, how many you got?
Steyn: Why aren't you home with your seven wives?
Mpudi: I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.
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Mpudi: So how did the land rover get up the tree?
Steyn: Do you know she has flowers on her panties?
Mpudi: So that's how it got up the tree.
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