the Gods fell on the head is a film written and carried out by the South-African Jamie Uys, left in 1980.

Synopsis

In a tribe isolated from Bochimans of the Kalahari, without contact with “civilization”, a miracle occurs: an extraordinary object, a bottle of Coca-Cola, fell from the sky. Transparency and very hard, it can be used of rammer, flute, container and good of other things still. A gift of the gods for these people sympathetic nerve where all is divided. Yes but…

This vulgar instruction of famous soda, that an aviator little ecologist threw over edge, is so useful that everyone needs some at the same time. The beautiful agreement of formerly made place to ceaseless quarrels. To have made such a gift, not from doubt, the gods fell on the head .

The council meets and decides that Xhixho (for the pronunciation of the xh of the language Xhosa, to see the article click ) will go at the end of the world to return to the gods their poisoned gift…

Data sheet

• original Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
• French Title: the Gods fell on the head
• Réalisation: Jamie Uys
• Scenario: Jamie Uys
• Assembly: Jamie Uys
• Original music: John Boshoff
• Image: Robert Lewis, Buster Reynolds
• Format: color - 2:35 - mono
• Lasted: 109 min
• Comings out date: August 21st, 1981 (Norway) - January 19th, 1983 (France)

Distribution

• Marius Weyers: Andrew Steyn
• Sandra Prinsloo: Kate Thompson
• NR! xau: Xixo
• Louw Verwey : Sam Boga
• Michael Thys: Mpudi
• NIC De Jager: Jack Hind

Comments

The film was a considerable success in the world and in France (5 950.000 entries), returning the realizer and his interpreter bochiman NR! xau famous. Temptation was large to exploit the seam. Uys did not resist it and a second version left in 1989 which appeared definitely less good. Other films of the same realizer were shown to support the theses of the Apartheid still into force at that time.

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